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2: We talk with RAUL MALO the lead singer for the country music band The Mavericks. The group's latest CD is "Music For All." by MCA Nashville 1995.

TERRY JOHNSON..is a local organizer for the Philadelphia contingent headed to Monday's Million Man March. Johnson plans to walk to Washington to help symbolize his determination for a positive change in U.S. race relations. He and others will follow the path once used by the Underground Railroad.

KAZUO (ka-zoo-oh) ISHIGURO (ish-ee-gew-roe) won international recognition with his novel The Remains of the Day. He won the distinguished Booker Award for this book in 1989. It was later adapted to a movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. The Japanese born British writer has released his latest book The Unconsoled, Alfred A. Knopf 1995. A story about the mixed blessings of celebrity from the point of view of a concert pianist. Other titles by Ishiguro include: A Pale View of the Hills, An Artist of the Floating World

Okay. OJ is over. And that got critic Bob Mondello musing about how Hollywood has treated with the subject of juries in film.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York on an effort to help poor, battered women divorce their abusive husbands.

Daniel talks with Lonny Shavelson, author of "A Chosen Death," (Simon and Schuster) about the rights of the handicapped to chose assisted suicide. In his book, Shavelson tells the story of one very intelligent, life-affirming man who was completely incapacitated as the result of an accident as a young boy. And though this man enjoyed life in spite of his confinement to a wheel chair and his inability to speak, the physical and emotional limitations became too great a burden and he ultimately chose to fast to death.

Daniel talks to three professors at Howard University... Janet Dates, Leroy Wells, and Richard Wright... about issues of race and how blacks and whites see cultural institutions differently.

NPR's Jacki Lyden reports on the support Muslim countries are showing for the Bosnian government. Iran and other Islamic countries say that they will ignore the United Nations embargo of arms to Bosnia, with the support of the 52 member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH WARREN B. RUDMAN, FORMER TWO-TERM REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE AND DAVID L. BOREN, FORMER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM OKLAHOMA, ABOUT THE PROGRESS THE 104TH CONGRESS HAS MADE SO FAR.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH GARY LE MEL, PRESIDENT OF MUSIC AT WARNER BROTHERS, WHO JUST MADE HIS CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT AS A SINGER. (HIS NEW CD - ROMANCING THE SCREEN - IS ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS)