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NPR'S PETER KENYON REPORTS THE LATEST ON THE BUDGET SHOWDOWN BETWEEN PRESIDENT CLINTON AND THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS...A SHOWDOWN THAT MAY SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. 3:30.

This weekend marks the first annual Patsy Cline Festival in Winchester, Virginia. Jacki talks with biographer Ellis Nassour about the delayed recognition for Patsy--she wasn't always well thought of in Winchester. And we'll hear portions of two Patsy Cline chestnuts.

Mark O'Brien was stricken by polio as a young boy and is currently one of the few remaining Americans living inside an iron lung. It is from this restricted position that O'Brien has enjoyed the pleasures of baseball by following the games exclusively on radio, not television. "How I Survived Childhood" is one of several poems O'Brien has written about his favorite sport.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new memoir by Mary Cantwell, Manhattan, When I Was Young.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS ON A PHP, PHYSICIANS' HEALTH PLAN, SET UP BY 300 PHYSICIANS IN GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO MEET BOTH ECONOMIC AND PATIENTS' DEMANDS.... AND THE NEEDS OF TODAY'S HEALTH CARE.

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.