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B-I - Daniel talks with Diarmuid Jeffreys, author of "The Bureau - Inside the Modern FBI" (Hougton Mifflin). Jeffreys discusses a period during the 1980's when the FBI investigated people belonging to peace and activist groups that were critical of U.S. policies in Latin America. Jeffreys says this period was reminescent of other dark periods in the Bureau when the FBI turned its attention towards investigating people in the U.S. based largely on their political views.

"New York Times" defense correspondent MICHAEL GORDON and retired Marine Corps General BERNARD TRAINOR. They have collaborated on a book about the Persian Gulf war, "The General's War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf." ( Little, Brown) The book examines why the war was "an incomplete success.

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2: Writer/Director MILCHO MANCHEVSKI (MEEL-choe Man-CHEF-skee). The native Macedonian, now based in the U.S. went home to make his first feature film, "Before the Rain." One critic at the Venice Film Festival said the film is "written and directed with surprising skill and ability, wonderfully filmed." MANCHEVSKI is also well known for directing the music video, "Tennessee" by Arrested Development which won an MTV video award in 1992.

NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS FROM CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO, ON THE LATEST IN THE FIGHTING BETWEEN INDIAN REBELS AND THE MEXICAN ARMY.

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK BASEBALL...WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY PLAY?

Daniel talks to Laurie Garrett, author of the book, "The Coming Plague." She says that there are more antibiotic-resistant microbes and diseases that resist conventional medications now than ever before, and that they are spreading rapidly throughout the world because people and goods are travelling more than ever.

An interview with former Atlantic Records executive JERRY WEXLER. Wexler was the producer behind some of the greatest soul music of the 60s, including classic sessions with Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. (REBROADCAST FROM 5

Daniel speaks with Silas Cochise, a tribal council member of the Mescalero-Apache Indian tribe in New Mexico. This week the tribe decided not to allow the federal government to bury nuclear wastes on their lands.

Daniel talks to the mayor of Puyallup, Washington, Mike Deal, who was forced to drop an anti-smoking initiative when area restaurants, backed by the major tobacco companies sued him and his city council. Deal says the council realized there were other pressing needs for the city.