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NPR's A Martinez asks William Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, about his thoughts following President Zelenskyy's speech at Davos.

CBS is planning a one-hour season finale for Robin Williams' The Crazy Ones. It was one of three sitcoms built around big established stars this season, all three of which suffered in the ratings.

Janet Webster Jones recommends Why Grow Up? by Susan Neiman, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson and A History Of Food In 100 Recipes by William Sitwell.

During sentencing the judge said William Lynn had enabled "monsters in clerical garb" to abuse children.

Music critic Milo Miles has a review of "My Soul Looks Back", a new collection of the music of gospel singer MARION WILLIAMS.

2: Comedian and actor GARRY SHANDLING. He stars in HBO's parody of talk-shows, "The Larry Sanders Show." It features SHANDLING as a veterantalk-show host. His guests have included Robin Williams, Howard Stern,and, actual talk show host, David Letterman playing themselves.SHANDLING also starred in "It's Garry Shandling's Show" a few years back. Just this week,"The Larry Sanders Show" completed its secondseason with Larry quitting the show.

WEEKEND EDITION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR TALKS WITH WILLIAM SEIDMAN (SEED-man), PAST CHAIRMAN OF THE RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION AND CO-CHAIR OF THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON PRODUCTIVITY UNDER PRESIDENT REAGAN, AND NORA LUSTIG, SENIOR FELLOW IN THE FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE AND PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT EL COLEGIO DE MEXICO IN MEXICO CITY (1975-91), ABOUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS WITH THE MEXICAN ECONOMY IN LIGHT OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S ACTION THIS WEEK, BYPASSING CONGRESS, TO RESCUE THE PESO.

A concert and interview with SHIRLEY HORN. Playing with her will be drummer Steve Williams and bassist Charles Ables. HORN recorded with Miles Davis and Quincy Jones in the 1960s and sang on the movie soundtrack of "For Love of Ivy." After a hiatus in which she stayed home and raised her daughter, she returned to performing and recording in 1988. Her latest album is "The Main Ingredient" (on Verve). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 6

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that demonstrators burned the US and UN flags in Jakarta today in response to remarks by the visiting US Defense Secretary William Cohen. He told the Indonesian government it must disband paramilitary groups in West Timor or risk international economic assistance. Indonesia, which has not recovered from the Asian economic crisis, is still dependent on the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But analysts warn that withdrawing financial support could jeopardize Indonesia's transition to democracy and possibly bring down the current elected government.

A newly unsealed report suggests energy companies deliberately manipulated California's electricity market. The report details conversations between the Williams Cos. and AES Corp., in which employees talk about extending power plant outages to profit from higher prices. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.

Defense Secretary William Perry said today the U-S has not yet determined who was responsible for the June 25 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. airmen. "We have reached no conclusions about who was responsible for this," Perry told reporters in response to questions about Washington Post report that Saudi authorities had arrested 40 people and were convinced that Iran backed a broad conspiracy in the attack. NPR's Martha Raddatz has a report.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that President Clinton today announced his choices for a new national security team, nominating Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine as defense secretary and U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state. He also named his national security advisor, Anthony Lake, to head the CIA and has asked Lake's deputy, Samuel "Sandy" Berger, to fill Lake's job. They were the first of several announced cabinet changes expected for the second Clinton administration.

He starred in HBO's parody of talk-shows, The Larry Sanders Show. It featured Shandling as a veteran talk-show host. His guests included Robin Williams, Howard Stern, and, actual talk show host, David Letterman playing themselves. The show went off the air in 1998, but reruns of the show are currently airing on the network Bravo. Shandling also starred in It's Garry Shandling's Show. Shandling also appears in the new Seinfeld documentary, Comedian,which shows in theaters now. (REBROADCAST FROM 10/1/93)

U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) will propose that the military draft be reinstated so that every American must consider the human cost of ousting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Rangel, a military veteran, opposes a strike against Iraq. There appears to be little support in Congress for his draft plan. Rangel speaks with NPR's Juan Williams.

Theresa Schiavone reports on the public television documentary, Two Towns of Jasper, which examines the racial divide in the Texas city where the 1998 racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. occurred. Two New York filmmakers, one black and one white, made the movie as a way to reconcile their differing views about race relations. During the Byrd murder trials in 1999, Marco Williams, who is black, interviewed black residents of Jasper; Whitney Dow, who is white, interviewed white residents.

Seventy-five years ago this week, William Faulkner's first novel was published, called Soldier's Pay. It was inspired by his World War I service in the Royal Canadian Air Force. But it was another war that brought commentator Fred Woodress to Oxford, Miss., and an afternoon with Faulkner. Having learned about Faulkner in the Army's college program at Ole Miss, he asked a waitress about him in a local restaurant. She was Faulkner's wife, and told Woodress to go see him. He describes the afternoon smoking and rocking on the the Faulkners' front porch, and another visit several years later.

He was born in the Congo Republic, was educated in the US, and left the Congo with the outbreak of civil war in 1997. Two of his novels have just been translated to English: Little Boys Come From the Stars and The Fires of Origins (both by Lawrence Hill Books). With the help of writers Philip Roth and William Styron, DONGALA now has a visiting professorship in chemistry at Simons Rock of Bard College in Massachusetts. DONGALA is also president of the Congolese PEN Centre.

Guests: Murray Horwitz NPR Vice President of Cultural Programming Bill Ivey Chairman National Endowment for the Arts First NPR chose the 100 greatest American musical works of the 20th century, now the National Endowment for the Arts has gotten into the act with a list of over 300. Over the Rainbow tops the list. Would it be your number one? Join Juan Williams and guests for a look at more great songs of the century from Judy Garland to Nirvana.

Colorado Springs may not have an actual spring, but it does have a statue to its founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer. Sunday marks the 140th anniversary of the city's founding. Colorado Public Radio's Mike Lamp tells us about Palmer, whose statue is in the middle of a busy intersection.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Judy Williams of Tucson, Ariz. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station KUAZ in Tucson.)