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Monday, April 26, 1999

For questions about Morning Edition,  Talk of the Nation, or All Things
Considered, call NPR's Audience Services at (202) 414-3232. For tapes and
transcripts call toll-free 1-877-NPR-TEXT (1-877-677-8398).

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

Diane Rehm:  disability law; the global economy
Fresh Air: playwright David Hare
Public Interest:  accusations of fraud and racism at the Kidder Peabody
financial firm
Talk of the Nation: NATO wrap-up; privately funded school vouchers
All Things Considered: a new Georgia O'Keefe exhibition, and the day's news

Friday on WMUB Forum: the war over Kosovo



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

                       10-11: Disability Law: The Supreme Court will hear
arguments in four cases the week of April 26 that could  transform
disability law. One author of the original 1990 law and other legal experts
discuss how the law has  been interpreted and how the Supreme Court could
change it.

                             Guests: Chai Feldblum, assoc. professor of
law, Georgetown University ;Peter Petesch, attorney  representing human
resources professionals; Steve Gold, attorney representing advocates for
the  disabled

                       11-12: Thomas Friedman: New York Times columnist
explains globalization in his new book, "The Lexus and the Olive Tree"
(Farrar Straus & Giroux). As he sees it, the world economy is seeking a
balance between  products traded all over the world, like Lexus cars, and
local traditions and interests like the olive trees of the  Middle East.


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

                       Guest is playwright David Hare. He has two shows on
Broadway: One stars Judi Dench, the other is a  one-man show in which Hare
makes his stage debut. Also, Michael Ceveres and Steven Trask from the
off-Broadway rock musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."

                             For tapes and transcripts of Fresh Air, call
Toll-Free 1-(877)-21-FRESH.



   Public Interest,
1-2 p.m.

                       Host: Kojo Nnamdi

                       IN 1994, THE FIRM OF KIDDER PEABODY SHOCKED WALL
STREET BY ACCUSING JOSEPH JETT, ONE  OF THE COMPANY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL
TRADERS, WITH MASTERMINDING HUNDREDS OF  MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENT
TRANSACTIONS. MR. JETT JOINS KOJO TO DISCUSS THE  LEGAL DECISION WHICH
DISMISSED ACCUSATIONS OF FRAUD, AS WELL AS THE GREED, RACISM, AND POWER
STRUGGLES HE SAYS DOMINATE MANY WALL STREET FIRMS.

                             Guest: Joseph Jett, author, "Black & White on
Wall Street: The Untold Story of the Man Wrongly  Accused of Bringing Down
Kidder Peabody"



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

                       Host: Ray Suarez

                       HOUR ONE: NATO WRAP-UP: the future of NATO floowing
its 50th anniversary and the Kosovo intervention

                       HOUR TWO: PRIVATELY FUNDED SCHOOL VOUCHERS

                             Call Talk of the Nation at 1-800-989-TALK to
join in the conversation.



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

                       We pay a visit to a new exhibit of the already
much-exhibited painter Georgia OKeefe. It gives a new  perspective on the
well-known American artist. That and the days' news including the latest on
NATO's  military action in Yugoslavia.



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

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

                             Friday, April 30: the war over Kosovo

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