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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports the Tokyo stock market revived today after massive losses last week, but the market is jittery. It's unclear whether the Japanese government will stick to its new policy of non-intervention in times of crisis in the market.

Mystery novelist Janwillem van de Wetering (pronounced Yon-VIL-em VAN de VETering) Born in Rotterdam in 1931, Wetering was once a motorcycle gang member in South Africa, an aspiring monk in Kyoto, Japan, and a policeman in Amsterdam. He is currently living in Maine. The Dutch author's colorful past has led him to be known as an eccentric and hypnotic storyteller whose latest novel "The Hollow-Eyed Angel" (Soho), the 13th in his Amsterdam cop series, is a story of crime and modern morality. His novels "The Blond Baboon" and "The Maine Massacre" have recently been reprinted on Soho. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

NPR's Dean Olsher sends us an audio postcard from the lobby of a downtonwn Washington law firm. High-powered intellectual property lawyers sing Christmas songs alongside the guys from the mailroom. They sound great, for litigous amateurs.

Linda Wertheimer's upbringing in New Mexico always included special tamales on Christmas Day. Today, Linda talks with Patricia Quintana, from her family home in Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Quintana is the author of several cookbooks on regional Mexican food. Her latest is The Best of Quintana. She tells how to make the sweet tamales traditionally made with red colored maza -- corn meal dough -- for Christmas and New Year's. Afterwards, Linda checks in with Mela Leger in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as her family arrives for what she calls their traditional "tamale wars" on Christmas day.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that the United Nations is taking short-term security measures to more carefully screen mail and trying to make long-term security plans. But specialists in terrorism say bombs sent through the mail are hard to stop. Letter bombs addressed to an Arabic-language newspaper were disarmed at U-N headquarters in New York yesterday.

over the preliminary injunction issued by a U.S. district court judge which prevents the enforcement of Proposition 209. The voter-approved measure bans racial preferences in hiring and selection processes in California.

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NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that President Clinton today announced his decision to waive for another six months a controversial provision of a law that tightens the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The president said he will once again suspend that part of the so-called Helms-Burton Law which would allow Americans who had property confiscated by the Cuban government to sue foreign firms doing business on that property today. Mr. Clinton said he expects to continue suspending this provision every six months, so long as America's European allies continue to pressure Cuba to improve its human rights record.

Scott talks to Weekend Edition Saturday gardening consultant, Ketzel Levine, and to Tony Avent (AY-vent), owner of Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, North Carolina. They remember horticulturalist James Chester Raulston who died recently in an auto accident. Raulston was the director of the Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He was best known for his skill and enthusiasm for collecting and generously distributing both rare and common plants.

editor-in-chief of >Entrepreneur magazine, about hot business trends for 1997. She says, if you've been thinking of starting your own business, or if you're already your own boss, you might consider scenting your store with a citrus fragrance and stocking up on rollerblades and gardening tools.