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Monday, March 29, 1999

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NOTE: Any of today's show may be pre-empted to cover the ongoing NATO
strikes in Kosovo and Serbia

Diane Rehm: DC mayor Anthony Williams; terrorists' use of new biological,
chemical, and nuclear weapons
Fresh Air: The Mod Squad TV show and film; NY Times restaurant critic Ruth
Reichl
Public Interest: regulating smoking in public
Talk of the Nation/Science Friday: airstrikes in Serbia; Kevorkian guilty
verdict
All Things Considered: NATO airstrikes in Serbia; independent counsel law

 Friday on WMUB Forum: how scientific discoveries affect philosophy and
religion



   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon
(*2 FULL HOURS
on WMUB)

                       10-11: Washington DC Mayor Williams: Diane talks
with Anthony Williams, the new mayor of the Nation's  Capital. They'll
discuss his plans to restore Washington to financial health and
governmental independence,  after years of controversial management in the
city.

                       11-12: Jessica Stern: Jessica Stern, formerly with
the National Security Council, talks about some of the  frightening new
biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons being developed by the new breed
of terrorists  around the world. Her book is called "The Ultimate
Terrorists" (Harvard)


   Fresh Air
with Terry Gross,
12:06-1 p.m.

                       we discuss the situation in Kosovo and the NATO
bombing with a journalist from the Belgrade station Radio  B92, the leading
independent radio station in Serbia. The station was banned from
broadcasting. The  journalist will speak to us from London. And a talk with
The New York Times' ROGER COHEN who  reported on the war in Bosnia.



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       Guest Host: Kathy Merritt

                       CONTROVERSY OVER WHETHER OR NOT THE GOVERNMENT HAS
THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHO  MAY SMOKE AND WHERE HAS HEATED UP AS SOME LOCAL
GOVERNMENTS PASS LEGISLATION  TO BAN SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS AND BARS. KOJO
AND PANELISTS TALK ABOUT THE DEBATE  BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI REGULATION
ADVOCATES.

                             Guests: 1. Jeffrey Schaler, editor, "Smoking:
Who Has the Right?" 2. Maury Chafetz, M.D., president,  Health Education
Foundation 3. Richard Daynard, Ph. D., president, Tobacco Control Resource
Center



   Talk of
the Nation
2-4 p.m. (*LIVE)

                       Host: Lynn Neary

                       HOUR ONE: AIR STRIKES IN SERBIA: a panel of
historians look at President Clinton's historical  justifications for NATO
air strikes against Serbia

                       HOUR TWO: KEVORKIAN GUILTY: the Kevorkian verdict
and what it portends for assisted suicide and the  law



   on today's
All Things
Considered,
4-7 p.m.

                       Men and women who say their lives have been
destroyed by independent counsels investigating alleged  wrongdoing by
those in public office. Later today -- the story of Mike Espy -- the former
Agriculture Secretary   -- who is looking to restore his reputation. That
story and the latest from Yugoslavia



   WMUB Forum,
9-10 a.m.,
repeated 7-8 p.m.

                       Guest host Cleve Callison hosts an hour of
conversations with guests, and your e-mail comments and  questions
(http://www.wmub.org/forumcomment.html)

                             Friday, April 2: how scientific discoveries
affect philosophy and religion

                                   Guest: Steve Alexander, Miami Department
of Physics; the Rev. Grant Barber, Episcopal priest

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