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NPR's Ann Garrels reports from Moscow that four years after the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, Russians are disillusioned, and it turns out that rebuilding a cathedral is easier than building democracy.

Last year, a cajun dance hall in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, called La Poussiere, allegedly denied entry to an African-American patron. The federal Justice Deptartment has sued the club saying it violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We traveled to the region to investigate the case...and to talk about race relations with the whites and blacks who live there. This is part one of a piece that continues in the second half hour of the show.

The United Nations and NATO have given the Bosnian Serbs a Monday deadline for pulling their heavy weapons back from Sarajevo or face renewed military attacks. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

Daniel visits Los Angeles County's General Hospital. A billion dollar budget shortfall will force the county later this month to layoff thousands of health care providers. The hospital is the largest public hospital in the nation and hundreds of thousands of people without health insurance will end up with no place to go.

SIMON/BBQ: SCOTT SIMON VISITS DREAMLAND BARBEQUE IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. JOHN BISHOP, WHO IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, FIRST OPENED DREAMLAND IN TUSCALOOSA IN 1958, SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE ALABAMA DROPPED ITS SEGREGATION LAWS. TODAY, THERE ARE THREE DREAMLAND RESTAURANTS...TUSCALOOSA, BIRMINGHAM, AND MOBILE, ALABAMA.

SISTER MARY/ SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SISTER MARY OF THE CROSS, A CLOISTERED NUN FROM SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY WHO ATTENDED THIS WEEK'S MASS BY POPE JOHN PAUL IN NEARBY NEWARK.

WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "DEAD PRESIDENTS."

THE GREENBRIER HOTEL IN WEST VIRGINIA RECENTLY ACQUIRED SOMETHING THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH ITS POSH INTERIOR SINCE THE 1950'S.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the performance this weekend of the rarely-heard Khachaturian Concerto which features the flexatone, an eerie-sounding percussion instrument which is very difficult to play.

Commentator GERALD EARLY gives his thoughts on next week''s scheduled Million Man March in Washington.