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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ANNE FRANK PIECE BROADCAST ON "WEEKEND EDITION/SATURDAY" LAST SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1995 WILL BE RE-BROADCAST THIS WEEKEND ON "WEEKLY EDITION: THE BEST OF NPR NEWS."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Mr. Payback," a new interactive film.

SIMON/BALLOONIST: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH STEVE FOSSETT, A 51-YEAR-OLD CHICAGO OPTIONS TRADER, WHO HAS JUST BECOME THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO PILOT A BALLOON SOLO ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

Jacki talks to Anthony DeCurtis, an editor at Rolling Stone magazine, about the album, "I Ain't Movin" by the singer Des'ree. (dez-ray) DeCurtis says that effectively combines the slick production of contemporary R+B artists and the tradition of social comment in some of the R+B musicians of the 60s and 70s.

This past week, a handful of Senate republicans called for the ouster of Senator Mark Hatfield as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee as punishment for Hatfield's failure to vote in favor of the balanced budget amendment. The effort failed, and prompted these comments from a democratic supporter of the amendment, Senator James Exon of Nebraska.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE NOW BEING SOLD MORE IN OFFICES AND FACTORIES BY PARENT, RATHER THAN DOOR-TO-DOOR BY THE GIRL SCOUTS, BECAUSE PARENTS ARE FEARFUL OF HAVING THEIR CHILDREN ON THE STREET.

Chris Arnold (f) reports that flood waters have cut off the Monterey Peninsula 100 miles south of San Francisco. Thousands of people were forced from their homes as the Salinas and Pajara rivers flooded some of the nations richest farmlands.

2: Child care innovator and reformer DICK CLIFFORD. In 1993-94 he took a year leave from his professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish and direct the North Carolina Smart Start Early Childhood Initiative under Governor Hunt. The program is a working model of partnership between public and private groups. It has been considered a success and is being expanded into other counties of North Carolina.

2: Poet GARY SNYDER. He was part of the beat poetry scene in San Francisco in the late 50's. He appears as a character in several of Jack Kerouac's books. Snyder has since won the Pulitzer Prize. He continues to teach and write. In 1990 he published two books: "Dimensions of a Life" (Sierra Club Books) a collection of his essays, and poetry in "Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems" (North Point Press). (REBROADCAST from 9/20/90). SNYDER's latest book is, "No Nature: New & Selected Poems," (Pantheon, 1992).

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.