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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."

Daniel talks with Martha Manning, psychologist and author of "Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression," (HarperSanFrancisco) which recounts her descent into a debilitating depression and her decision to undergo electro-shock therapy as a last resort. She says the treatment, sometimes considered outdated by professionals like herself, helped her regain her ability to function in the world.

Pollster STANLEY B. GREENBERG. He was pollster and senior advisor to Bill Clinton's presidential campaign, and is currently pollster to the president and advisor to the Democratic National Committee. GREENBERG is credited with recognizing, nearly ten years ago, the dissatisfaction among middle class voters with the two political parties. GREENBERG has a new book about the historic forces that put Bill Clinton in the White House, and (consequently) led to 1994's midterm Republican landslide. It is, Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority. (Times Books).

2: British poet, novelist and critic A. ALVAREZ. His new book Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams (W.W. Norton & Co.) is about the dark and the night, literally and figuratively. ALVAREZ examines night terrors, dreams, sleep research, fear of the dark, and "the dark night of the soul." ALVAREZ writes, "Daylight, with its routines and busyness, keeps. . . fantasies mostly at bay. But at night, when the external world is hidden, common sense loses its points of reference, and there is space for less amenable figures to make their presence felt."

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON YESTERDAY'S PASSAGE OF THE REPUBLICAN-DRAFTED WELFARE REFORM PACKAGE.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the fact that two out of three households cannot afford a computer. Experts say the technology gap between the haves and have nots is a growing problem for the nation's workforce.