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Ken Tucker reviews the Smashing Pumpkins new album, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness."REV. :Maureen Corrigan reviews The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens.

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

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR EXAMINED WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT HOLD AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN WITH WILLIAM QUANDT...AN ADVISER ON MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS TO THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION WHO IS NOW PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA...AND WITH SAMUEL LEWIS, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL DURING THE 1978 CAMP DAVID PEACE TALKS, AND NOW A COUNSELOR AT THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY.

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was among the people attending Rabin's funeral last Monday. He wrote us his reflections on the event and on the tragedy behind it.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE U.S. OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT THAT GOES INTO ITS FINALS THIS WEEKEND.

SCOTT'S THOUGHTS ON THE ASSASINATION OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ITZHAK RABIN LAST WEEKEND

2: DENNIS DIKEN of the band The Smithereens. He's just compiled a collection of recordings by the English record producer Joe Meek. Meek's heyday was in the late 50s and early 60s, and was responsible for "the best pop to come out of pre-Beatles England." Meek committed suicide in 1966. The new CD is "It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek" (Razor & Tie Music, P.O. Box 585, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y.

SIMON/"THE TIN GOOSE": SCOTT SIMON ONCE AGAIN TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO WHO, LAST WEEK, SOLD ONE OF HIS "TUCKER TORPEDOS," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA.

NPR's John Greenberg reports that the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress continued flinging rhetoric at each other today, as a Monday night deadline looms ahead for the shutdown of the federal government. At issue is legislation extending the government's borrowing and spending authority. President Clinton says he will veto the legislation because the Republicans have attached riders affecting medicare and other programs. This piece examines what the fight is about.