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SIMON/MITCHELL: WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REMEMBERS FILM ACTOR WOODY STRODE, WHO DIED LAST WEEKEND AT THE AGE OF 80.

SCOTT TALKS WITH 89-YEAR-OLD NORMAN VAUGHAN, JUST RETURNED FROM CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN THAT BEARS HIS NAME IN ANTARCTICA. VAUGHAN WAS PART OF ADMIRAL BYRD'S EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE IN 1928, AND HAD ALWAYS VOWED TO RETURN TO THE MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER HIM.

OUR GARDENING CONSULTANT, KETZEL LEVINE, SHOWS UP IN A MOST UNLIKELY PLACE THIS WEEK.

SCOTT HAS SOME THOUGHTS ON THIS WEEK'S BROUHAHA IN THE WAKE OF CONNIE CHUNG'S QUESTIONING OF NEWT GINGRICH'S MOTHER.

THE FBI DISCIPLINES 12 AGENTS IN THE 1992 SHOOTING INCIDENT IN IDAHO.

Joe talks with Richard Berkholder, the director of International Operations for the Gallup Organziation. They discuss the first ever Gallup poll taken in China, whcihc was just completed. Berkholder says some commonly held Western beliefs about China will be dispelled once people read the results of the survey.

NPR's Isabel Alegria reports on a crime prevention program in California that receives federal funds from President Clinton's crime bill--funds that are threatened by Republican members of Congress.

Joe speaks with NPR's Margot Adler about the NAACP's annual meeting in New York City. Today, members cast a vote of no confidence in the civil rights organization's current Chairman of the Board of Directors, William Gibson.

Singer AL GREEN. Green's one of the greats of soul and gospel music. He's probably best known for his hit, "Let's Stay Together." He'll talk about his musical career, and about his being "born again" as a Christian. (REBROADCAST< Originally Aired 6/

HOST SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE BUSINESS COLUMNIST JOE NOCERA (NOH-SAIR'-RUH) ABOUT THIS WEEK'S DEBUT OF TWO TELEVISION NETWORKS: WARNER BROTHERS AND UNITED PARAMOUNT.