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Steve Inskeep of member station WBGO reports on the world chess championship being played atop the World Trade Center in New York City. The games feature long-time champion Garry Kasparov (kah-SPAHR-off) of Russia and Viswanathan Anand (VEESH-wanuh-thun uh-NAHnd) of India.

IN LIGHT OF ACTS COMMITTED AND DOCUMENTED BY THE LIKES OF SENATOR ROBERT PACKOOD, DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN AND RICHARD NIXON, SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JERROLD POST, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY - SPECIALIZING IN THE STUDY OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN WORLD LEADERS - AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ASKS THE QUESTION...WHY WOULD SOMEONE KNOWINGLY CREATE A RECORD OF HIS OWN INDISCRETIONS?

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR ANALYSES THE BOSNIAN AGREEMENT WITH DR. DANIEL N. NELSON, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, WHO HAS JUST RETURNED FROM BOSNIA, AND MARSHALL HARRIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ACTION COUNCIL FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS AND FORMER BOSNIA SPECIALIST IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

This past week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow Alaska to export oil for the first time since the energy crisis of the mid-1970's. The Senate previously passed the measure, and President Clinton says he'll sign it. This all got us to thinking about how far the country has or hasn't come since the energy crisis, and Danny talks to oil expert Daniel Yergin for some answers.

Daniel talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, about the latest development in the long Bosnian war. Serb forces have pulled back from the Muslim enclave of Bihac after Croatia's army threatened the Croatian Serb stronghold of Krajina.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH CARL LEUBSDORF (LUBES-dorf), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND WILLIAM NEIKIRK (MIGH-kirk), WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ABOUT THE TWO PRESIDENT CLINTONS: THE GREAT CONCILIATOR AND THE VETO PEN-BRANDISHER.

THE CONTENTS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S POCKETS THE DAY HE WAS ASSASSINATED ARE ON DISPLAY AT FORD'S THEATER.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH LOUIS SARRIS, A STATE DEPARTMENT ANALYST FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH MOST OF THE YEARS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (NOW RETIRED), WHO SAYS THAT IN HIS MEMOIR "IN RETROPECT," ROBERT McNAMARA, WHO HAD HELPED DESIGN AND LEAD THE VIETNAM WAR, HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED HIS ERRORS FULLY...NOT EVEN IN THAT MEMOIR.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists are looking into an ancient mystery...trying to determine what caused 80 percent of all plant and animal life on earth to vanish in an episode that pre-dated the dinosaurs.

WE HEAR THE VOICES OF WOMEN WHO REMEMBER VOTING IN 1920, ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY THE 19TH AMENDMENT WAS RATIFIED.