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WE HEAR REFECTIONS OF SOLDIERS WHO LIBERATED PRISONERS FROM THE BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP...AND WE ALSO HEAR SELECTIONS FROM EDWARD R. MURROW'S RADIO BROADCAST THE DAY OF LIBERATION OF BUCHENWALD, 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.

NPR'S ANN COOPER REPORTS FROM JOHANNESBURG THAT PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA HAS, ONCE AGAIN, FIRED HIS CONTROVERSIAL WIFE, WINNIE, FROM HER CABINET POST.

Southwest Colorado is facing a housing crisis just like many other rural communities across the Mountain West. To combat the problem, local organizations in the region are building affordable housing developments.

On this the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Daniel talks to Frank Snepp, an analyst for the CIA in Viet Nam about the final hours of the American pullout from that city.

Danny talks to Reverend Kelly Clem of Piedmont, Alabama about the Easter service she conducted today amidst the ruins of tiny Goshen Methodist Church where a deadly tornado struck during Palm Sunday services a year ago. Reverend Clem describes coming to terms with sorrow, destruction, and the death of 20 parishoners, including her daughter, Hanna.

1) FRANK SALOMON, a member of the Phoenix Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue Unit, which is one its way to Oklahoma City to help with the rescue efforts there. 2) Architecture and Design Critic THOMAS HINE. HINE has written a new book, The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes (Little, Brown Co.) HINE explores the affect packages have on consumer emotions and purchases. He unveils how packaging, from Tide's orange box to Lifesaver's sleek cylinder plays on our sensibilities in making brand choices.

NANCY POSTERO VISITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF BAHIA (bah-EE-ah) AND PROFILES THE "DR. RUTH" OF BRAZIL, A MAN WHO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT SEX AND CONTRACEPTION IN THAT CATHOLIC COUNTRY.

Scholars, social critics, and futurists ALAN and HEIDI TOFFLER, authors of Future Shock (1970). They've gotten a lot of publicity lately, because of their association with Newt Gingrich. GINGRICH sought them out 20 years ago because he was fascinated by their ideas about the "intersection of history and the future." One of the books that GINGRICH has suggested that every member of congress read, is the TOFFLERS' newest. It's Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave. (Turner Publishing

SPORTS: WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT IS AT THE MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AND TALKS WITH HOST SUSAN STAMBERG ABOUT THE PAST AND FUTURE OF GOLF, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH BASEBALL.

Actor PETER FALK (FALL-k). He is best known for his role as a rumpled L.A. detective in the TV series "Columbo," where he garnered three Emmy awards. He currently stars in the recently released film "Roommates," detailing the relationship between a grandfather and grandson