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Monday, August 17, 1998

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Diane Rehm: world stock markets; obsessive-compulsive disorder
Fresh Air: TBA
Public Interest: Lee Stringer's twelve years as a street person
Talk of the Nation: Swiss bank Holocaust settlement; new fall TV season
All Things Considered: the Japanese economy, from bubble to bust



   The Diane
Rehm Show,
10-12 noon

                       World Stock Markets: In recent weeks stock markets
around the world have been sliding downward in  reaction to Japan's
financial woes and economic problems in other countries. A panel discusses
how  world stock markets influence each other, and what the markets tell us
about the health of the global  economy.

                       Guests: Jim Glassman, contributor to the Washington
Post and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Fred Bergsten,
director of the Institute for International Economics; Knight Kiplinger,
Kiplinger  Personal Finance

                       11-12: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A discussion
on obsessive compulsive disorder, with Dr. Judith  Rapoport of the National
Institutes of Mental Health, and Emily Colas, who has struggled with this
disorder. Her book "Just Checking" (Pocket Books) portrays the way her
problem affected her and her family. Guests: Emily Colas "Just Checking"
(Pocket Books); Dr. Judith Rapoport, National Institute of Mental Health,
author of "The Boy who Couldn't Stop Washing his Hands"


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

                       TBA



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS BROTHER, LEE STRINGER PLUNGED
INTO A DEEP DEPRESSION, BEGAN ABUSING ALCOHOL AND CRACK COCAINE, AND SOON
FOUND HIMSELF LIVING UNDER A TRAIN  PLATFORM IN GRAND CENTRAL STATION. HE
STARTED WRITING, SOBERED UP AND WROTE A MEMOIR  OF HIS TWELVE YEARS LIVING
ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY.

                       Guest: 1. Lee Stringer, former editor and columnist
of Street News; essays and articles have appeared  in several publications,
including The Nation, The New York, and Newsday, author of "Grand Central
Winter: Stories from the Street".


   Talk of
the Nation,
2-4 p.m.

                       Guest host Lynn Neary

                       HOUR ONE: SWISS BANK HOLOCAUST SETTLEMENT

                       the historic settlement that's been reached between
Swiss banks and Jewish groups.

                       HOUR TWO: NEW FALL TV SEASON

                       a preview of the new Fall television season.


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

                       Part one in a series of reports on the Japenese
economy -- from bubble to bust. How the boom in the  late 1980's turned
into the crisis of today, also plans to avoid a financial collapse.

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