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Freelance firefighter PETER LESCHAK battles forest fires in the Northwoods and the West...He's not a smoke jumper he says, he's a "grunt"-hiking to remote locations, putting out fires sometimes on his hands and knees-spark by spark. His new memoir is called Hellroaring

2: Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN. He wrote a book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His book is Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest (Viking). The book was issued in paper back 8/94 by Penguin Books.(Aired 9

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR ASSESSES THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE 104TH CONGRESS.

critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman," which airs Wednesday on NBC.

BEVERLY AND DERECK JOUBERT (pronounce "Jo-Bear"), wildlife documentary producers. This husband and wife team lives in northern Botswana, seven hours from the nearest village. Working and living out of a four-wheel drive vehicle, they have captured the family relationships of the last free-roaming elephants left in Africa. Their wildlife film, "Reflections on Elephants," contains ground-breaking footage of lions attacking an elephant calf. Previously, such attacks were thought to be only mythical. (REBROADCAST FROM 2/2/94) The JOUBERTS have just won a Peabody award for the film.

STAMBERG/CUOMO: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG "CHASTIZES" MARIO CUOMO, WHO IS NOW OUR COMPETITION! THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT HE WILL HOST HIS OWN TALK RADIO SHOW, WHICH WILL AIR SATURDAY MORNINGS.

Alice Magill recalls the time ..just before her wedding when she learned why her father would not be able to give her away.

2: Screenwriter and novelist RICHARD PRICE. His books include The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, and Clockers, which was a National Book Critic Circle Award nominee. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1986 for his screenplay of "The Color of Money." His other screenplays are "Sea of Love," "Night and the City" and "Mad Dog and Glory." His newest credit is "Kiss of Death," which stars David Caruso, Samuel Jackson and Nicholas Cage.

Investigator MICHAEL REYNOLDS with the Klan watch Militia Task Force, with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The task force assisted in the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing. They have information on more than 180 militias around the country.

GARDENING: SPRING IS IN THE AIR SO...SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE.