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2: Interview with LEONORE TIEFER continued.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT VISITED CUBA RECENTLY, AND REPORTS ON THE CHANGING ECONOMIC SITUATION THERE -- FIDEL CASTRO'S ALLOWING THE BEGINNINGS OF A MARKET ECONOMY, AND IT'S MAKING THINGS BETTER FOR SOME.

NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDFARB REPORTS ON HARMONICA LEGEND LARRY ADLER, NOW 80 YEARS OLD AND LIVING IN ENGLAND. HE WAS A WELL-KNOWN MUSICIAN IN AMERICA, THEN WAS CALLED TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE HOUSE UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE, WHERE HE REFUSED TO COOPERATE. HE MOVED TO ENGLAND AND CONTINUED TO PERFORM, AND NOW HE'S RELEASED A NEW CD.

FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE MEXICAN PESO DEVALUATION ON U.S. BUSINESSES. WHILE SALES OF SOME U.S. IMPORTS TO MEXICO HAVE PLUMMETED SOME BUSINESSES ARE REAPING ADVANTAGES IN REDUCED LABOR COSTS AND LOWER IMPORT PRICES FOR GOODS COMING FROM MEXICO.

2: Poet JAMES MERRILL. He died Monday at age 68. The son of the founder of the Merrill Lynch brokerage house, Merrill took to Europe at age 24, a newly published poet "meaning to stay as long as possible". That was in 1950. His memoir "A Different Person" (Knopf) detailed his two and a half years there, and featured encounters with psychoanalysts, new and old lovers, and Alice Toklas. MERRILL wrote eleven books of poems, and was the winner of two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

(Interview with ARMSTRONG continued).

ALL STATIONS FROM: VAN WILLIAMSON RE: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY/FIRST RUNDOWN DATE: JANUARY 28, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: BILL REDLIN & LAURA KNOY

THE SINGING GROUP "BETTY" (ALLISON PALMER, AMY ZIFF AND BITSI ZIFF) SING US A VALENTINE SONG. (TOLL FREE NUMBER - 1-800-HI BETTY, 1-800-442-3889).

2: Many people will remember SHEILA JAMES KUEHL as Zelda Gilroy on the old T-V show "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." Her T-V career ended when rumors began to circulate that she was a lesbian -- and those rumors were true. She's now a prominent lesbian activist and women's rights lawyer in Los Angeles. In November 1994, she became the first openly gay or lesbian person to be elected to the California State Assembly. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

AFTER YEARS OF PROTESTING THAT FOREIGN SUBMARINES, FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, WERE SPYING ALONG THE SWEDISH COASTLINE, THE SWEDES MADE PUBLIC LAST WEEK AN EMBARRASSING DISCOVERY...THEY HAD MISTAKEN RUSSIAN SUBMARINES FOR MINKS. SCOTT SIMON DISCUSSES THE MIX-UP WITH SIMON HAYDON, AN EDITOR AT REUTERS NEWS SERVICE IN STOCKHOLM.