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SIMON/JORDAN: SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS PAST "MICHAEL JORDAN" WEEK.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT MIKE TYSON'S RELEASE THIS MORNING FROM AN INDIANA PRISON AFTER SERVING THREE YEARS FOR RAPE, AND HOW IT WILL AFFECT THE WORLD OF BOXING.

NPR's Melissa Block reports survivors of the Long Islan Railroad shooting in New York made courtroom statements this past week in th trial of Colin Ferguson. He was convicted of killing 6 people during a shooting rampage on the railroad. Crime victims and their relatives are making their case in court more and more often.

We present the best and worst of the responses to last week's request for spring cleaning music - music while you clean!

Jacki talks with Dr. Sigmund Eckhouse. He's a former chemical engineer who for 36 years worked for the Army in developing the chemical agents that would be used in chemical weapons. They discuss the history of chemical weapons from World War one and up to the present.

Jyll Johnstone and Barbara Ettinger have explored the way they each were raised by nanny's in the 1950's in a new documentary called "Martha and Ethyl." Johnstone's nanny was a rigid disciplinarian, Ettinger had the opposite with a woman named Ethyl who she now look upon as a second mother.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Jacki Lyden talks to Geraldine Brooks, former Wall Street Journal corresspondant who has written a book on women and Islam. The book, "Nine parts of Desire" details some of Brooks more unusual experiences in the Middle East including a visit with the late Ayatollah Khomeni's family. Brooks says that there are many advantages in being a woman in that part of the world. The book is published by Doubleday.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "The Polish Officer,"(Random House) a new espionage novel from Alan Furst.

MARCH 4, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: MICHAEL LENAND, LAURA KNOY