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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

WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH MARTIN TOLCHIN (TOL-chin), PUBLISHER AND EDITOR OF "THE HILL" NEWSPAPER, AND MORTON KONDRACKE (KON-dra-key), EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF "ROLL CALL" NEWSPAPER, ABOUT THE DEFEAT IN THE SENATE OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, AND WHAT THAT MAY INDICATE FOR SENATOR DOLE AND FOR THE GINGRICH REVOLUTION.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.

Jacki recently visited the Japanese music group the Kodo Drummers as they prepared for a concert at the Kennedy Center. We have this sound moment of the drummers.

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli reviews to new sitcoms premiering on NBC tonight, "News Radio" and "Hope and Gloria."