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WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH ANDY ROONEY, CBS TELEVISION COMMENTATOR, ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "MY WAR," PUBLISHED BY TIMES BOOK, IN WHICH HE RECALLS HIS YEARS AS A CORRESPONDENT DURING WORLD WAR II FOR THE STARS AND STRIPES.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL GOLDBERGER, CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, WHO RECENTLY VISITED BERLIN AND FOUND THAT 50 YEARS AFTER THAT CITY SURRENDERED TO THE ALLIES AND 5 YEARS AFTER THE BERLIN WALL CAME DOWN, THERE STILL IS A HOLE IN THE ARCHITECTURAL HEART OF BERLIN.

Guitarist Les Paul's 80th birthday is celebrated by featuring our 1992 interview with him. Les Paul has spent his life playing guitar, inventing guitars to play, and inventing devices to record himself on. He's often been called the "Thomas Edison of music."

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Many real estate agents agree that if you are looking to purchase a house right now..its a great time ...prices are relatively low and there are many of them.. And as Nina Teicholtz reports even the mortagage companies are trying to make it easier to buy a house right now...

BOSNIA: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE O"CONNOR IN SARAJEVO ABOUT INCREASED FIGHTING AROUND THAT ALREADY DEVASTATED CITY.

REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER: A SPECIAL SEGMENT ON OUR NEW RADIO CARTOON JULIUS KNIPL: (kuh-NIPL) REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER. INCLUDING INTERVIEWS WITH PRODUCER DAVID ISAY, WRITER AND NARRATOR BEN KATCHOR AND SOME OF THE ACTORS.... THEN THE FIRST INSTALLMENT.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that the hostage crisis in the Russian city of Budenovsk (pronounced: bood-YAWN-uhfsk) took a turn for the worse today, as Russian government troops stormed the hospital where Chechen fighters are holding more than one thousand civilians hostage, but failed to end the crisis. Some hostages were freed, around 200. But most remained captive. Negotiations continue. And in Moscow, the political fallout is accumulating, as Boris Yeltsin's government tries to figure out how to end the crisis without further loss of civilian lives.

NPR's Edward Lifson visits the town of Matteson Illinois where local officials have launched a campaign to attract more white residents to their town. This effort at maintaining racial diveristy is a painful, but necessary remedy for many residents who don't want to appear racist but are also concerned about property values.

NPR'S Peter Kenyon reports that in Washington this week, both the House and Senate will be preparing to vote on budget resolutions that Republicans say will bring the huge federal deficit under control. They say these budget blueprints will balance the budget by the year 2002 Lawmakers are still months away from actually cutting any federal programs. But the debate between Republicans and Democrats is at hand, and it's going to be contentious.