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The United Nations women's conference in China begins tomorrow. NPR's Marykay Magistead spoke with officials on the American delegation to the conference and has this report.

Jacki talks to Barbara Hodgson, author of "The Tattooed Map," (Chronicle Books) a story about a woman who travels to Morocco and wakes up one morning with a mysterious map tattooed on her arm. She decides to follow the map and disapprears.

AS CEREMONIES GET UNDERWAY COMMEMORATING THE JAPANESE SURRENDER TO ALLIED FORCES FIFTY YEARS AGO, NPR'S NEAL CONAN REPORTS ON THE HATREDS THAT FUEELED THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. PROFESSOR JOHN W. DOWER, THE HENRY LUCE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION AT THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAYS THAT ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY BOTH SIDES CREATED A VICIOUS CYCLE. (PROFESSOR DOWER'S BOOK "WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR" IS PUBLISHED BY PANTHEON) WE ALSO HEAR EXERPTS FROM GENERAL DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S SPEECH AT THE SURRENDER CEREMONY IN TOKYO BAY.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH INTERNATIONALLY SYNDICATED CHESS COLUMNIST SHELBY LYMAN ABOUT THE THIS WEEK'S START OF THE PROFESSIONAL CHESS ASSOCIATION WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP...PITTING 32-YEAR-OLD RUSSIAN GARY KASPAROV AGAINST 25-YEAR-OLD CHALLENGER VISWANATHAN ANAND (vis-WHAN-a-thon UH-NAND) FROM INDIA.

STAMBERG/RENT A FORT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH GARY JOHNSON, GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO, ABOUT WHY HIS STATE WANTS TO RENT OUT FORT STANTON, A THIRTEEN-HUNDRED ACRE GARRISON BUILT IN 1855.

SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL AND JOE NOCERA, WEEKEND EDITION'S BUSINESS ANALYST, HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT CURRENT NETWORK MERGERS...THE DISNEY COMPANY'S PURCHASE OF CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, WESTINGHOUSE'S PURCHASE OF CBS, AND THIS WEEK POSSIBLE MERGER. TIME-WARNER INC. MAY BE BUYING TED TURNER'S TURNER BROADCASTING SYSTEMS.

NPR'S MARGO ADLER REPORTS THAT GETTING A PASSPORT FAST MAY CURRENTLY TAKE DAYS.

Daniel talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the death of three top U.S. officials today on a muddy road near Sarajevo in Bosnia. The three men were architects of the Clinton administration's policy towards Bosnia. They died in what Clinton called a "tragic accident" when their vehicle rolled off the road.

Daniel talks with Pastor Karen Young, from the Allen Chapel AME church in Wheaton, Maryland. The church is kicking off a national program to improve the immunization rate of African American children which lags behind the national average. The program, called "First Wives" is being initiated through the wives of pastors all over the country because, they believe, it is the women who are most concerned with childcare.

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