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SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new cd by the jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. It''s called "Friday Afternoon in the Universe" (Gramma Vision).

THE EIGHT-DAY SUMMIT MEETING HELD BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN ENDED AT THE SMALL CRIMEAN RESORT TOWN OF YALTA 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. NPR'S ANDY BOWERS PREPARED THIS REPORT.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead reports that it's been nearly a year after the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam has been lifted. One of the more unusual new joint ventures has been the importation of Holstein cows.

WEEKEND EDITION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH NORMAN ORNSTEIN, FROM THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, AND THOMAS MANN, FROM THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION. BOTH ARE AT THE "CONFERENCE FOR NEW MEMBERS OF THE 104TH CONGRESS" IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, AND THEY'LL BE DISCUSSING THE NEW CONGRESS.

SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF TWO GREAT JAZZMEN WHO DIED RECENTLY: JESS STACY, WHO PLAYED PIANO WITH THE BENNY GOODMAN BAND IN THE 1930S, AND CONNIE KAY, THE DRUMMER WITH THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET SINCE 1955.

GOVERNORS: NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS ON THIS WEEK'S MEETING BETWEEN GOP CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS AND THE NATION'S REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS.

Sexologist LEONORE TIEFER. (Tee-fur) has written a new book "Sex Is Not a Natural Act: and Other Essays."(Westview) In her book she looks at our society's anxieties and ignorances towards sex. She also questions what is "normal" sex and how people are to know how to have sex if no one talks about it. . TIEFER received a Ph.D. in physiological psychology with a dissertation on hormones and mating behavior of rats. But TIEFER came to realize she knew nothing of the social norms of sexuality and questoned how sexual norms evolved. She re-specialized in clinical psychology and became a sex researcher, sex therapist and an Associate Professor of Urology and Psychiatry at the Montefoire Medical Center in New York City. Tiefer has also been a sex columnist for the New York Daily News. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE