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HOST ALEX CHADWICK AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

FOLKLIFE: THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLIFE DOWN ON THE NATIONAL MALL IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND THIS YEAR THE FESTIVAL, WHICH RUNS THROUGH JULY 4TH, IS FEATURING MUSIC FROM NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN, RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN CHORAL ENSEMBLES, PLUS CAPE VERDEAN MUSIC AND MUSICIANS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

Deidre Berger reports on the past week's events in the North Sea, where Shell Oil changed it's plans to dump an oil rig in the ocean, after protests from Greenpeace.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI IN BELGRADE ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR A BOSNIAN PEACE, NOW THAT THREE SIDES IN THE WAR HAVE AGREED TO TALKS.

This past week, Russian and American scientists announced they had definitely identified the remains of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas the Second, and his family. The final i.d. came as the result of DNA testing. Jackie talks about the Tsar...and his bones...with Robert K. Massie...author of Nicholas and Alexandra.

TV Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the fourth segment of MTV''s "The Real World " documentary series, which airs tonight

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON THE CONSTRUCTION MADNESS CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE IN THE SUBURBS OF MOSCOW.

Jacki discusses the latest events in Bosnia with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade. Today, the top UN general in the former Yugoslavia met with the Bosnian Serb military leader. They tried, but failed, to work out an arrangement for the Serbs to withdraw their heavy weapons from Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO officials met in Brussels to consider whether to resume military attacks against the Serbs.

2: Animator CHUCK JONES. Jones made many of the greatest Warner Brothers cartoons, and he created the characters Pepe LePew, Wile E. Coyote, and the RoadRunner. He wrote a memoir of his years at Warner Brothers, called Chuck Amuck (Avon Books). (REBROADCAST FROM 10/18/89).

DEBBIE ELLIOTT REPORTS ON THE DILEMMA FACING POOR STATES SUCH AS ALABAMA AS A RESULT OF CONGRESS' DOWNSIZING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CUTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS WHICH REPRESENT A SIZEABLE PORTION OF STATE BUDGETS.