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2: JAMIE HAMMERSTEIN, Broadway producer, director and past president of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. He has recently helped in the making of a new PBS tribute show about his father, OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN.

ED GILLESPIE, co-editor of the book, The Contract With America and policy and communications director of the House Republican Conference. He believes the welfare reforms outlined in the Republican agenda are accurate assessments of what is needed to correct the current welfare system. Since 1985 MR. GILLESPIE has worked for Rep. DICK ARMEY .

Fresh Air commentator Maureen Corrigan reviews The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank (Doubleday). The book is a newly expanded edition of the famous diary which Anne''s father, Otto Frank, the only survivor, published.

NPR'S WENDY KAUFMAN IN SEATTLE REPORTS THAT MARTIN PANG, WHO HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF FOUR SETTLE FIREFIGHTERS, HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN BRAZIL.

Jacki talks to Lynda MacCartney, the curator of the C.I.A. exhibit centre in the C.I.A. HQ in Langley Virginia about the new exhibit on the film director John Ford. Ford, who received a total of 6 oscars, worked for the Office for Strategic Services, the precursor to the present-day C.I.A. during World War two. During his work with the OSS Ford pioneered aerial camera techniques that saved many lives and pushed the medium of film in new directions..

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2: "All Things Considered" host ROBERT SIEGEL. He has co-anchored the show since 1987. He opened NPR's London Bureau in 1979, and was appointed as director of the News and Information Department in 1983. SIEGEL has just edited "The NPR Interviews, 1994" (Houghton Mifflin). This interview was recorded last Thursday in front of an audience at the WHYY studios.

T-V critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new Watergate documentary that premieres Sunday on the Discovery channel.

Filmmaker HAILE GERIMA ("Highly Guh-REE-ma"). He was born in Ethiopia and now lives in America. His latest movie, "Sankofa," ("San-KOH-fah") which he wrote and directed, is an epic about African-American slavery, from Africans' 18th century journey to America to their struggles for liberation, told for the first time from an African viewpoint. Gerima is a professor of film at Howard University in Washington, DC. Along with "Sankofa," two of his past features, "Harvest: 3,000 Years" and "Ashes and Embers" have won international awards. Recently, the Smithsonian's Museum of African Art showcased his career with a seven-film retrospective. "Sankofa" means "returning to one's roots, recuperating your losses, and moving on," in the Akan language of Ghana.