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mmentator GERALD EARLY reflects on saxophonist Charlie Parker. His commentary is inspired by "Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes" (Clef Records).

SPORTS: HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE NEW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON, WHERE FANS HAVE REACTED HARSHLY TO THE LAST YEAR'S STRIKE WITH ROWDYISM TOWARD PLAYERS AND BY STAYING AWAY FROM GAMES.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL PATTERSON, HEAD OF COMPOSITION AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN LONDON, ABOUT A WORK BY HUNGARIAN COMPOSER GYORGY (Gzeorgze) LIGETI (LIH-gih-tee), PERFORMED LAST WEEK AT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL IN LONDON SO DIFFICULT TO PLAY...IT HAD TO BE PERFORMED BY A COMPUTER.

Defense analyst and professor MICHAEL KLARE, author of Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws: America's Search for a New Foreign Policy. (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book explores the current tendency of the Pentagon to focus on Third World countries as the new threat to U.S. national security. KLARE is defense correspondent for The Nation, a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, and Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College

2: PAUL SIMMS, creator of the new NBC sit-com "News Radio." This is SIMMS' first entry into the world of sit-coms but SIMMS previously worked as writer for both the "The Larry Sanders Show," and "Late Night with David Letterman." He also wrote for Spy Magazine.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT TWO NEW FOX TV SCIENE FICTION SHOWS...VR.5 AND SLIDERS.

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AND HER DAUGHTER CHELSEA HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM A 12-DAY TOUR OF SOUTH ASIA AND HOST SUSAN STAMBERG LOOKS BACK OVER THE TRIP.

Documentary film maker WINFRIED BONENGEL. In 1993 BONENGEL made the film "Profession: Neo Nazi," which follows Ewald Althans, a rising leader on Germany's neo-nazi scene. Althans is different from the stereotypical neo-nazi: intelligent, successful and well-dressed. The film ignited one of the fiercest debates on documentary film making in Germany's history. The film was barred from many states and the distributor was forced to withdraw it from circulation

MICHAEL TONRY. TONRY is a professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. His new book Malign Neglect: Race Crime, and Punishment in America (Oxford University Press) discusses how our current approach to fighting crime victimizes disadvantaged black Americans. He calls for a reform of sentencing and parole policies

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations that Iraq 's speaker of parliament today rejected a UN offer to allow Iraq to sell oil to finance the purchase of emergency humanitarian supplies. Ever since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq has been barred from selling its oil on the world market. The embargo was imposed by the United Nations, and once the Gulf War ended, it stayed in place...leverage to force Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions regarding weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions have hurt the Iraqi people, and yesterday, the U.N. Council told Iraq it could sell two billion dollars worth of oil to help finance purchases of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. Today, Iraq rejected the U.N. move, and launched a new anti-American propaganda drive.