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From n.p.r. News in Washington d.c. This is Weekend Edition. I'm Scott Simon Arkansas may soon execute a convicted murderers enlisting. Allen all was aggressions commissioner in Georgia Colorado and Mississippi believes it's a bad idea nobody in Arkansas was from to speed in an execution well over the next year so here we're going to have $2.00 to $8.00 executions today and listen to this later this hour the chance of mistakes in the effect on those who carry out so many lethal punishments and later Michael Flynn's bid for immunity to testify about Russia and the trumpet ministry 1st our newscast it's Saturday April 1 2017. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington and Joel Snyder the White House has started providing a picture of the wealth of President Trump's appointees N.P.R.'s Alina Syl York reports that some of the financial disclosures on dozens of high ranking officials and the federal ethics law hiring appointees in the executive branch have to disclose their financial holdings and reach agreements with ethics officials to make sure their holdings don't conflict with their public duties a late Friday release included a financial snapshot from Steve Bannon former executive at Breitbart who is Trump's chief strategist he made more than $1000000.00 in the last year one of the wealthiest appointees is Gary Cohn former Goldman Sachs president and now the director of the National Economic Council Trump's daughter Ivanka and son in law Jared Kushner both now at the White House have assets valued at more than $200000000.00 Alina n.p.r. News to Richmond Virginia where a judge has rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of several of the state's legislative district boundaries N.P.R.'s Sarah McCammon reports a case is part of a larger effort by redistricting overhaul advocates a lawsuit was spearheaded by the nonpartisan group one Virginia which is working to fight gerrymandering of Virginia state legislative and congressional districts the suit was filed on behalf of residents of 11 State House and Senate districts it argued those boundaries as last drawn by the legislature in 2011 are so sprawling that they fail to meet a state constitutional requirement that districts be compact in his ruling a state circuit court judge writes that he found aspects of the gerrymandering reform advocates argument persuasive but he ultimately said the case wasn't strong enough to strike down the current boundaries advocates say they may appeal or ask the judge to reconsider the decision Sarah McCammon n.p.r. News political crises in Paraguayan Venezuela this weekend in Paraguay is Capitol last night demonstrators set fires in the congress building after the Senate voted to change the. To Sion to allow the president to run for a 2nd term in Venezuela the opposition is calling for demonstrations today following the Supreme Court's decision this week to take power away from the National Assembly residents of Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly against leaving the European Union but Lauren Frayer in Madrid reports at Gibraltar will have to accept in a draft of Brecht's The terms sent out to the 27 remaining e.u. Members there's a clause about Gibraltar it says no future deal between the u.k. And Europe can apply to that British territory without a separate bilateral agreement with Spain so essentially Spain gets veto power over Gibraltar status Gibraltar's government says it's been shamefully singled out for unfavorable treatment and accuses Spain of being predatory Gibraltar is a big rock and peninsula at Spain southern Tayeb home to about 30000 British citizens it's been u.k. Territory for more than 300 years but Spain has long sought to annex it for n.p.r. News I'm Lauren Frayer in Madrid this is n.p.r. Longest winning streak in division one college basketball history is over at the women's final 4 Mississippi State upset the University of Connecticut 66 to $64.00 in overtime last night N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman describes how Yukon's $111.00 game winning streak came to an end it ended with the smallest player on the court making the biggest play perhaps in women's college basketball history 5 foot 5 inch Mississippi State point guard Morgan William hit a jump shot from the right side of the key at the buzzer it was a dramatic finish but in fact Mississippi State of Play the heavily favored Huskies for most of the game the Bulldogs defense in the words of u. Conn head coach Geno Auriemma took Yukon or way from the things that likes to do the Huskies uncharacteristically forced shots and committed turnovers at key moments Mississippi state's win was a huge moment of redemption you can beat the Bulldogs by 60 in last year's tournament Mississippi State now plays for the champ. Chip against South Carolina on Sunday Tom Goldman n.p.r. News men's tournament is down to the Final 4 South Carolina plays on sag and Oregon plays North Carolina tonight that title game to be played Monday night in Phoenix golf 1st big tournament of the year will get underway next week without Tiger Woods last night Woods announced his decision to sit out the Masters citing recurring back trouble he says he did everything he could to be ready but his rehabilitation is not yet there Woods has had 3 surgeries on his back and on the sable Fool's Day a snowstorm has moved into parts of northern New England National Weather Service has parts of the region could see 12 inches on trial Snyder n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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News I'm Scott Simon members of Congress sure want to hear from retired General Michael Flynn needs President Trump's former national security adviser and he says he'll talk but with a catch Mr Flynn wants immunity from prosecution before he agrees to testify in any investigation of Russian meddling in the presidential race right now there is no sign that investigators will agree we're joined now by n.p.r. Justice correspondent Carrie Johnson Carrie thanks so much for being with us hi Scott does General Flynn's lawyer want to be unity for his client because he's afraid will be prosecuted for something well that's certainly an open question remember that after he left the White House was fired from the White House this year Scott in General Flynn actually filed some forms with the Justice Department registering he was acting as a foreign agent for a company close to the Turkish president that should have been done last year when the work was performed not this year after it was already public there are also some open questions about whether Flynn was told the truth in his background check so we don't know the extent of any culpability he may have but certainly a smart legal strategy for his attorney to try to lean in and get his client some immunity in the Senate as we speak has indicated they're not open to immunity still is that just to go to a negotiating position is there a chance that one of the committees will agree to an immunity deal there is a chance Scott but it's really early in the investigation it's not clear what Mike Flynn hasn't his back pocket to in Van any of the investigations either in Congress or at the Justice Department usually before any kind of deal is struck authorities want a proffer that's a sense of what a witness has to say how helpful or explosive It may be and that makes sense because Congress does not want to get in the way of a possible criminal case. Being built by the Justice Department there's a long history here by that you refer to the Iran Contra scandal in the late eighty's exactly Marine Corps lieutenant colonel all over north was a key witness and that arms for hostage scandal during the Reagan years back in 1987 Congress actually granted Oliver North and munity in exchange for his testimony here is congressional investigator John Eales back then questioning north about a key issue whether he got rid of any documents tying President Reagan to the scandal did you or did you not shred documents that reflected presidential approval of the diversion I have absolutely no recollection of destroying any document which gave me an indication that the president had seen the document or that the president had specifically approved Scott after this North was automatically convicted by a jury of 3 felony crimes including shredding some documents but a federal appeals court here in Washington made a very important ruling the court ruled that the congressional grant of immunity and North's high profile testimony that was televised tainted the entire criminal case against him hurt his 5th Amendment right against self incrimination since then longtime Washington lawyer Steve Ryan told me Congress has been very reluctant to get in the way the Justice Department Ryan points out d.o.j. Gets about 30 days to object to any congressional immunity deal before it takes effect for that very reason I'm sure there's enough irony to go around but it should be noted both President Trump and General Flynn have made some pointed comments about immunity in the recent past absolutely during the campaign Donald Trump pointed out 5 people connected to Hillary Clinton's e-mail server had gotten immunity deals from the Justice Department essentially saying they were operating under a legal and ethical cloud and last September Michael Flynn appeared on the n.b.c. Show Meet the Press Flynt had this to say about immunity when you are given immunity that means you probably committed a crime plan for his part denies wrongdoing his lawyer Rob Kellner says. No reasonable person with a lawyer would ever submit to questioning in such a highly politicized witchhunt environment without immunity so things are sort of in a status quo or a limbo now there are 2 congressional committees as we speak the Justice Department the f.b.i. All trying to get to the bottom of any Russian connections with the 2016 election what's over the horizon what's next these investigations are in very early stages dozens of witnesses are still on tap to testify f.b.i. Director James Comey suggested the investigation still had a long ways to go they're operating in kind of a black box now Scott but there are certainly a lot of questions about my clan other people close to the Trump campaign who had to do links with Russia last year N.P.R.'s Carrie Johnson thanks so much for being with us you're welcome those hearings on Russian meddling in u.s. Election process as someone memories and of another era and another congressional investigation N.P.R.'s David Well now has the report. As he gaveled in the Senate intelligence panels 1st open hearing on Russia's role in the presidential campaign on Thursday chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina Republican and a campaign adviser to President Trump was at pains to take his perch above the partisan fray Vice-Chairman I realize that if we politicize this process our efforts will likely fail Mark Warner the Democratic vice chairman from Virginia praised his chairman while slipping in a dig at their House counterparts I thank you for your commitment to the serious work and your commitment to keeping this bipartisan cooperation it least if not all across the hill alive in this committee the target of Warner's snark about not all across the hill was unmistakable the political fist fighting that's brought the house committee to a virtual halt presidential historian Robert Dallek says that can easily happen in a congressional probe with high political stakes there is reason why there is great appeal in the idea of having an independent committee will. Or an independent investigator to avoid just not kind of partisanship but 44 years ago a congressional panel did succeed in carrying out one politically explosive inquiry reporter Josh Garcia covered it for all things considered and expect him standing room only crowd at the historic caucus room of the old Senate Office Building witnessing day one of the Watergate investigation reciting of the Watergate Select Committee was a North Carolina Democrat Senator Sam Ervin if the allegations that have been made in the wake of the Watergate affair Alice's then she waited there has been a very serious version of the integrity of the electoral process at urban side was Tennessee's Howard Baker a Republican the party of newly reelected president Richard Nixon whose campaign shenanigans and their cover up were being investigated as Baker put it very integrity of our political process itself has been called into question the Democratic run Congress had only that one special committee investigating Watergate the Ames says Princeton political historian Julian Zelizer was to keep it credible Congress is very concerned about making sure that this investigation looked both legitimate and bipartisan because the administration with suggesting that the whole Watergate affair was simply part of an effort to get this president that it was a witch presidential historian Daleks' says even fellow Republicans had doubts about Nixon there were suspicions about him they had dubbed him Tricky Dick and so it was the inclination to think that wrongdoing was the something which could be entirely possible though he eventually resigned Nixon did try to defend himself people have got to know whether or not their presidents are crap Well I'm not a crook like Nixon Trump recently declared at the White House podium what he was not the tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person by the like there are other parallels this was the famous advice given the actor playing reporter Bob Woodward in the Watergate movie All the President's Men challenge me and here's Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden at Thursday's Senate hearing I believe the key to a successful investigation is following the money still Princeton's Eleazer says a lot has changed since the Watergate hearings today we have a Republican Congress investigating a Republican president and a much more polarized Congress where there are fewer people in the center like a Samurai man and there are much more political incentives for everyone to remain loyal to the party how will it all end follow the news David Bowman n.p.r. News Washington. An artist is sitting on a chair in a Paris art museum over a dozen chicken eggs until they hatch this is not an April Fool's joke I will broadly speaking become a chicken says. A French performance artist whose recently also had himself incased inside a bear where he ate worms and beetles and then inside a limestone rock where he thought slept and slept this time Avraham portion of Alice sealed inside a glass vivarium he sits on a small seat slightly above the eggs to incubate them like a mother hen for $21.00 to $26.00 days to raise his body temperature the artist has robed himself in a blanket and says he'll eat a lot of ginger he told interviewers that sitting on a exe to hatch them interest me because it raises the question of metamorphosis and gender but our Michael Juillet an associate professor of animal science at Penn State University finds this art piece inhumane he told Time magazine that humans can't maintain a temperature high enough to hatch healthy chicks it's a welfare situation he says I think that life is more important than some of those things that are called art. I don't bring up Avraham posh avails project or rail against performance art John Cage locked himself in a soundproof chamber at Harvard 1951 he got inspired to compose if that's quite the word a piece called for 33 in which a pianist gets ready to play but stays silent for 4 minutes and 33 seconds you really hear dimensions in the quiet and there is much to offend many in the lyrics the art collective Pussy Riot sang when they burst into a Moscow cathedral to perform their punk prayer which ends with a virgin birth giver of God drive away Putin but you can also would mire the spirit and courage of women who knew they would be jailed for their art. I'm stumped to see much performance or art in a man who sits on eggs that may never happen motherhood and chicken Hood for that matter is more than just sitting on x. . Says he wants to inhabit objects but I like to think the joy of art is to share what you do with an audience so that they can inhabit other lives ideas and dreams there are lots of ways to get people to stare the arch isn't helping them to feel. Cool. Cool cool. You're listening to Pussy Riot on n.p.r. News. This is Kristy Lee We have a good show coming up for you this weekend on a Prairie Home Companion if I can say so myself with music from the shins and this Regina Spektor plus the Royal Academy of radio actors will be there that's Tim Russell Serina broken Mr Fred Newman our 1st call radio players they'll be a new song of the week and much much more hope you'll join us Saturday evenings at 6 and Sundays at noon and $89.00 k.p.c. Seeing. K.p.c. See in person has a brand new storytelling series unheard l.a. The stories of where you live join me Bruce Lemon as we buckle up and stare off the beaten path to explore our region through the eyes and ears of fellow Angeline unheard l.a. 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Men's basketball tournament is down to the Final 4 South Carolina plays Gonzaga in Oregon plays North Carolina tonight in the women's tournament Mississippi State will face South Carolina for the national title after a buzzer beating victory over u. Conn last night on trial Snider n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Member stations and from the estate of Eric Robert Gustafson member of the graduating class of 1955 from Lincoln High School in Seattle whose bequest seeks to help n.p.r. Further its mission to work with member stations to create a more informed public and from Home Advisor matching homeowners with background check professionals for a variety of home projects from minor repairs to major remodels homeowners can read reviews compare prices and book appointments online at Home Advisor dot com. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon Kevin Ross corn soybeans and he raises cattle in southwest Iowa the bubble happen to the international market for u.s. Corn and soybeans if the trumpet ministration follows through to renegotiate u.s. Trade agreements and makes cuts to federal farm programs Kevin Ross joins us from his farm in Mindanao Iowa Mr Ross thanks so much for being with us Scott glad to be with you today are you concerned yeah I think a lot of farmers have concerns about trade being harmed we rely a lot on trade in our industries or culture and need you know robust agreements to make sure our products are shipped has business I tell you it's you know agriculture itself right now is kind of struggling we've got a lot of things that are concerning with prices and cost of production and different aspects of of Agriculture and specifically you know Midwestern corn and soybeans it's tight things are tight so hopefully policies that are getting put in place right now are keeping that in mind we certainly can't be you can't be a doing things to harm your culture right now or else I think really be in a real you know real world of hurt out here and I don't think anybody wants I got to tell you Mr Ross I've never heard a farmer tell me things weren't tight and. He I mean it's well it's it's a tough living to make I just wonder if things are worse now than they were 5 years ago 10 years ago certainly 3 or 5 years ago we're in a lot different spot right now than we were then on the bright side we did have a few good years there were a lot of farmers were able to better pay down some debt and you know trade in some equipment that was wore out but you know right now it's still tough Jeff people working in the farms there in southwest Iowa who are immigrants Yeah well I know we have immigrant labor around in the area and there's certainly a lot of folks that are different food production plants and certainly some dairies that have migrant workers could you do the job without them I'm sure that it would be much more difficult. The labor force if they've got is harmed or gone in a fast time they're certainly folks that are unemployed but at the same time it's tough to get people to do jobs they don't want to be President Trump says he'd like to get rid of a lot of burdensome federal regulations any regulations you just as soon be rid of boy you know there's a lot of things out there I guess that could be eased if you will well but if you could just give us an example of something that you you have to comply with that makes you roll your eyes sometimes well the regulations that I'm most concerned with are the ones that could be causing issues in getting approvals of new chemistries approved for crops that we grow cuts to different agencies could cause approval processes to take longer which certainly in times where you have different pests and things that need taken care of whether it's plant pests or in our case we have cattle as well and if there's problems there and we don't have the ability to to treat our plants or animals well with the latest tools you definitely want things to be safe but it seems more like it's being pushed the back burner for political reasons it's very frustrating as a farmer sometimes when you see a need for things and you know there's there's a fix is coming but regulatory issues are holding them up I have to ask has your business been affected by climate in recent years. Well in the agricultural business Everybody's affected by climate you know it I think anybody that says there's not change is happening is is somewhat naive on the other hand it's the things that we can do to figure out what things we can do long term to make sure we're you know in good position to continue to grow the crops that we have here in the u.s. And hopefully be profitable in the future and continue to be you know the largest producer of food in the world Kevin Ross who grows corn and soybeans and raises cattle in Mindanao Iowa thanks so much for being with us thanks Scott Pushit you having me. President Trump's proposed new budget emphasizes national security and public safety in the blueprint of that budget most departments see reductions 19 programs are slated to be eliminated several of those servile remarriage N.P.R.'s Ina Jaffe covers aging She joins us now from n.p.r. West for a segment we call one and 5 for the one in 5 Americans who will be 65 or older brother you're 2030 I know thanks very much for being back with us good to be with you Scott Are there programs for seniors that could be eliminated entirely if you take a look at this draft but there definitely are I mean one of them is a job training program people have probably never heard of it it's called Senior Community Service Employment Program and the participants have incomes around the poverty line or just above so these are people who need to work into their sixty's or seventy's and annually there is around $70000.00 participants their training consists of part time work at local nonprofits or government agencies and they're paid minimum wage so if the program goes away the trainees lose their wages and the local nonprofits lose their subsidized workers why would the administration want to eliminate a program like this I tried to get an answer to that from the Office of Management and Budget but they didn't respond the budget blueprint says that the program's got to go because it's ineffective that only half the trainees a venture we find unsubsidized jobs and cutting it would save the government $434000000.00 a couple of weeks ago the budget director Mick Mulvaney said that the administration just doesn't want to fund programs it sees as being ineffective Let's listen to how he phrased we're going to spend money we're going to spend a lot of money but we're not going to spend it on programs that cannot show that they actually deliver the promises that we've made to the Are there other programs for seniors I mean is that the administration finds ineffective and wants to eliminate. Well you know this is just the administration's 1st pass of this budget and it doesn't give reasons for every cut and reductions So for example we don't know why a program called Senior Corps is on the chopping block and as I said before the Office of Management and Budget didn't answer my questions about that and Scott Senior Corps is not a small program nearly a quarter of a 1000000 older Americans participate in it I haven't heard of it. Yeah well most people haven't in that form but you probably have heard for example of foster grandparents right these are older people who mentor and tutor at risk kids in elementary schools Well that's part of senior corps so is another program where older volunteers help out frail isolated elderly in their homes and there's a 3rd Senior Corps program that places volunteers with various community organizations again the participants are mostly low income and some receive a small stipend senior citizens are famously well organized and are often cited as just about the most effective political lobby in the country so that these are proposed cuts there still would be a fight ahead in Congress with their there'd be a big fight ahead in Congress and I'm sure all of the interest groups that are well known to everybody are organizing to fight this and the other thing to remember is that older people vote they are the highest propensity voters by age in the country and they want heavily for Donald Trump and I think that is something that the trumpet ministration may want to keep in mind N.P.R.'s Ina Jaffe thanks so much my pleasure the infamous prison on Rikers Island may be closed within 10 years New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told a press conference yesterday it will take many tough decisions along the way but it will happen Rikers is a complex of 10 jails on an island that sits between the Bronx and Queens began to open in 1935 and you cannot see a New York police drama without hearing Rikers used as a threat and often an epithet the jail holds about $10000.00 inmates most are awaiting trial or serving sentences of less than a year and there have been numerous court cases and investigations into inmates being abused and brutalized murdered Blasio has endorsed a plan to build a system of smaller jails in New York's boroughs that plan is estimated to cost at least $10000000000.00 and may have to overcome opposition from neighborhoods that do not want a prison nearby. The state of Arkansas may soon put to death 8 convicted murderers in 10 days the state is executing death warrants at an unprecedented rate because it's supply of one of the drugs that's used for lethal injections is reaching its expiration date visuals are concerned it won't be available later Dr Allen all has been a commissioner of Corrections in 3 states including Georgia where he presided over 5 executions Dr all has written a piece in Time magazine in which he implores the Arkansas government to reconsider its plans for executions Dr all joins us now from member station you in Lexington Kentucky Dr all thanks for being with us thank you for you say that executing 2 people per day over 4 days is dangerous How so. Well and a lot of people don't quite understand this but even the most despicable people when you go to execute them they are totally defenseless and you rehearse the execution sometimes weeks in advance you have a policy book about it and stick and it is in my mind one of the most premeditated murder that you can do even though it's under the auspices of the state I don't know anybody that has been involved who had a conscience that was not dramatically affected by it and we've had several correctional officials who later became alcoholics son committed suicide. Many of them. Were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder including myself some of us have been in war and we understand self-defense and that sort of thing but this is altogether different and are you suggesting that 8 executions over 10 days concentrates the experience in a way it sounds like no group of people have ever lived and been a part of so many executions on time I mean I know that Texas has executed a lot but none not even Texas on that kind of schedule and the other problem is that. Pharmaceutical companies and all medical professions will not involve themselves in executions so this is the problem they can't get the appropriate drugs anymore and I have this one drug which is a sedative as part of the cocktail but and Oklahoma and Ohio and some other states they've had real problems in the execution I mean botched execution is where they have died agonizing this at the hands of the officials because the drug cocktail was an correctly administered or incorrectly put together the drug you mention I gather is called my dad. And it was read originally created as a as a sedative could working at this Excel aerated rate increase the opportunity for mistakes I would guess so I mean these individuals in Arkansas and nobody in Arkansas was participated in an execution well over a decade and so here we're going to ask them to do 8 executions today in less and less than 2 weeks we want to mention that we have been trying for weeks related to interview perspired civil official in the in the state of Arkansas and they so far have chosen not to make themselves available for an interview but I do want to put the argument to you Dr Ault that a state official might say. Look this is the law they have been sentenced to death and it is the law of this state that we have to do that we don't have to like it and it might cause trauma but we are bound by. Our obligations to the state of Arkansas to fulfill the law. Well I've heard that argument over and over but. To do it in this manner because I'm an expiration date on a drug we're going to execute 8 people regardless I feel about these individuals and they may all be extremely despicable human beings the My concern is the innocent people which are the correction officials and how that will impact them for the rest of their life I still have things that trigger the nightmares and and the great sense of guilt. Human beings life is in your hand and you kill them. Dr Allen all today former warden and corrections commissioner and recently retired from the College of justice and safety at Eastern Kentucky University thanks very much for being with us thank you sir. Weekend Edition is a production of n.p.r. News which is solely responsible for its content like a story you heard on this or another n.p.r. Program share it with a friend at npr dot org While there you can also hear stories you missed enjoy expanded content or connect to your favorite member station. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Hundreds of thousands of kids are reported missing each year in America they disappear for reasons both mundane and disturbing some run away after having a fight with their parents others are learned from mom by sex traffickers Washington d.c. Police Department recently launched a social media campaign to try to help find missing children but as N.P.R.'s Ian Stewart reports the effort has had some unintended consequences d.c. Police started their program back in December their posts on Twitter and Facebook attracted attention but also fear and confusion and Instagram post sounded the alarm for girls have gone missing in d.c. In the last 24 hours another headline asked does anyone care about D.C.'s missing black and Latina teens it seemed like there was a sudden wave of missing kids so last week city officials organized a meeting to address the community's growing concern. Mayor Muriel Bowser got on stage and told a crowd of parents and kids she was as caught off guard as they were so I'd like you when I saw the number of tweets going out after recognize House Gary and how much anxiety and outrage is generate it by seeing these young faces on a screen the mayor was there to listen but also to make a couple points clear yes there are many more cases being shared on social media and yes about 2200 kids do go missing in d.c. Every year but the number of missing people hasn't gone up and police say the vast majority are found as the form wrapped up acting police chief Peter Newsham acknowledged those statistics offer little comfort we actually have fewer missing persons reported now than we did back in 20 trial by about a 1000 which is significant but it doesn't make folks feel any better and there's frustration there's frustration in this community that children of color are not getting the same attention that some of the white people who go missing research fairly consist. Simply finds that minorities are less likely to be covered in the media as victims Richelle powers is a professor of criminology at the University of South Florida and she says when missing people of color do get featured the extent of that coverage is often less the word count in a story maybe last there may not be humanizing details they might not have a clear picture on the television or in the newspaper or on top of that people of color are overrepresented in missing persons cases the f.b.i. Says almost 40 percent of missing kids are black Derek Wilson co-founded the Black and Missing Foundation to draw more attention to the problem like the police department her group also uses social media to feature missing people and it's working 2 and a half weeks ago we were contacted by a mother out of Baltimore regarding her autistic 60 year old teen The mom said her daughter had disappeared Wilson's team got in touch with the local police department and posted the girl's picture on Facebook several days went by one morning Wilson got a call it was over drive or something really stood out to him he was like you know why this young girl out this time of war news around 3 30 in the morning and he happened to see our POWs and said that Al lady was in my car last night with the help of the f.b.i. The girl was reunited with her mom and that's the hope with more pictures of missing children on Facebook and Twitter they'll be found and returned home more quickly Jon Stewart n.p.r. News. 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I'm Joel Snyder with these headlines Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is urging the country's Supreme Court to review its decision this week that stripped power from the opposition led Congress he appeared on state television last night amid accusations of a coup more protests against government are expected today and Paraguayan demonstrators set fires inside the Congress building last night after the Senate approved a measure that would allow the president to run for reelection 1992 constitution limits a president to a single 5 year term of 35 year dictatorship fell in 1989 and also 1st big tournament of the year will get underway next week without Tiger Woods Woods announced his decision to sit out the Masters last night citing recurring back trouble on trial smiter n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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Acquired a vast archive of his work that spans 3 decades of the architects career N.P.R.'s Mandalit del Barco reports Frank Gehry is giving the Getty his collection everything from scale models of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles with its swooping steel curves to paper clips he had laying around a studio it's so much stuff I have a big warehouse saved everything since my bar mitzvah and they will only take in a part of the archive comes from projects he created or started before winning the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1909 there are scholars who are interested in it trying to understand the journey I went on this pretty flattering or just knocked out by that everybody's interested in Frank Gehry Thomas Kate Gans is director of the Getty Research Institute he's excited to conserve the work and put it into context he and senior curator modest shot though say the archive illustrates how Gary works collaborating with artists and clients sketching out ideas modifying versions of architectural models for example the Disney Concert Hall the fact that we received the original drawings which have never been study will allow us to also to understand better the complexity of the building that most find this big if you look at from the 1st models to the last ones you can see how dramatic and more dynamic as this whole process became And this building stands for all emotion and movement music music music Gary is 88 years old and still working he says he appreciates the Getty preserving his legacy I hope people will realize that I tried to do something. Special that I had a pile of integrity about what I was doing I worried about cost control and constructibility and all of those kind of things that aren't usually associated with architects like me I've never really been over budget I hope they'll find that out. Scholars and architects will now have a chance to see how he pulled it all off Mandalit del Barco n.p.r. News to Cairo now for a story about another collector and collection I'm goodnight gathers ephemera incidents of daily life like ticket stubs or photographs letters even disposable toothbrushes He says these items tell the real history of Egypt N.P.R.'s Jane Erath visited his overflowing warehouses and satyrs this report. I walk into one of I'm getting a good storage rooms and an orange and white cat jumps off a glass shelf crowded with a little alarm clocks the clocks all show different types for Nicky The point isn't whether they work he just loves collecting things he doesn't even know what some of the stuff is he chooses a baguette Rand and pulls at a pile of old reprints. I love books which are drawings and some buildings I have the drawings of building which the building has already disappeared so I have the last trace long ago his family had beautiful villas filled with beautiful things they gave him a lot of it but the stuff he gave me didn't interest me to his looks and the plates boring things for them his collection is so extraordinary a Cairo art gallery is put part of it on display townhouse gallery founder William wells so one doesn't actually get a sense of the chaotic nature of the collection one can also a need to be begin to understand which is what I wanted in session of the collector for the collector and collecting collections that he is as eclectic as his collections he abandoned a career in finance and opened and closed a restaurant in the Sinai he was working as a park ranger diving coral reefs when he met the American woman he would marry years later to get by he occasionally. Elected lease sells a few things and he works as a film art director and rents props for movies it's the ephemeral the fragile the fleeting and the unloved that Mickey Loves You know I learned the word ephemera from e-bay. And it's it's own history do you know was a glorious 3 he's passionate about his collection of paper and plastic bags showing the names of items in shops popular in downtown Cairo decades ago as we walk past a rubber rope made from the coil tubing of World War 2 gas masks it's clear he's passionate about pretty much everything as you see unlike locks and keys and clothes and hats and glasses and lighters and cigarettes and bottles I like everything I like tiles elect architecture pieces you know everything is wonderful . So is there anything you don't collect I don't really care about stamps wouldn't keep loves most is sifting through artifacts to piece together people's lives will sometimes buy the entire contents of an apartment including lifetimes of letters and photographs even the clothes and furniture his collection includes 300 postcards letters sent to one Egyptian man from 889 to 1934 sold by sect we me and my wife you know readings letters you know like trying to figure out puzzles you know 10 years later someone calls me and said Come I have some of that junk you like he gave went and the 1st thing he saw in the pile was the business card of the same man whose postcards he and his wife had been poring over he found photographs of the people they'd been reading about in the latter's a woman who eventually became the band's wife and a teacher who had written to him since he was a boy writing to him for the last time from his deathbed at times he cares more about people's things and their own families do. Like a formal framed portrait of a German Shepherd below it is a chain with 13000 dog licenses one for every year of the dog's life the dog's owner had been moved from her elegant apartment to senior citizens home when her relatives sold her things to Negi and never met her but a father loves her through like the stuff I got from her I told him please I want to take this German Shepherd and I go to her room and hang it on her room and told people since she can. Then a few days later she told me she died. And I attacked and you know I didn't shoot her if I told you sold her stuff. Which was a life. Why can't you wait they gave is a guardian of people's memories sometimes they sit with. Some people's collection photographs or whatever and I feel their presence I feel it you know and they feel I talk to them until the war is you know stuff sitting there I saved it and it's stayed you know Playboy anywhere this is the real unvarnished history of Egypt and its people says in the fading letters in the old photos and even the plastic bags if you know how to read them Jane around n.p.r. News Cairo one of the most anticipated books of the year is out. What it means what a man falls from the sky it's the 1st book of short stories from Lesley Necker Arema who's won an African Commonwealth Prize among many others it's a book that ranges from the story of a child that a mother we from hair to a father's anxiety for the daughter he sends out into the world and an upturned world that's ravaged by natural disasters that can have everlasting results Lesley Necker Rima joins us from Baghdad Moira Tanzania thanks so much for being with us thank you for having me let's begin with this title story what it means when a man falls from the sky this is a world in many ways that you've turned upside down in just a few short pages tell us about this world. Yes You know I was interested in sort of and magine in what an alternate future would look like if climate change is taken to its ultimate conclusion and so within this world the continents that are consumed by the rising flood waters are Europe and America and so Westerners now become refugees coming to South America to Africa to a stray Leah and I said I wanted to play with the idea of the reversal of fortunes in that way and also out of your imagination the the story who will greet you at home that was a National Magazine Award finalist when you wrote it for The New Yorker. This begins with a woman who wants a child and weaves one out of hair what is this world to reveal so I like speculative stories you know magical realism and fantasy thank fiction what have you because we can take sort of things that we take for granted as rules to follow in our world and suddenly when you place them in this magical world. It takes on different connotations and so in this case it was the expectation that every woman should and desires to have a child that as perfect as she could make it and so you know once you take that natural desire that we have in our world and put this in this magical world it's a little sinister it's a little more complicated it's a little more interesting. You I gather were born in the United Kingdom Yes I was and you know we were there for maybe a few months and then relocated back to Nigeria. And at some point you came the United States when I was 13 yes my father was transferred here from work and we moved to Louisiana places. Which is not the place that I'm known for its large measure in population. But I think you know what I love about Louisiana which I did not love at that point was how it's a pretty unique culture I think it's the most distinct part of the United States I wonder if that experience. Sort of encouraged you to create these otherworld you write about. Well you know I had always sought comfort in books and so you know in the confusion of being a teenager you know thrust into this unfamiliar world you know books became a refuge and so I didn't think so at the time but it was inevitable that I would seek to become a writer Why do you think so many people are interested in post apocalyptic worlds at this point the idea of the sort of the stoep is has been gaining interest for the last couple of years and I think that at some point we. All know deep down that we're doomed and so. I think we're just sort of imagining imagining the future that are coming home I do really think we're all doomed I do you I'm a bit of a pessimist I do think that human nature has sort of proven time and time again that we will it will indulge our baser impulses I feel like we are in a cycle so we do well for a while and then things go downhill we just sort of keep writing this merry go round and so we're doomed boy I don't think I've ever ended an interview like that before but I think we can we get through the weekend using. A beach. I certainly hope so speaking with us from back of Moyo Tanzania Lesley Arema her new book what it means when a man falls from the sky thanks so much thank you and tomorrow on Weekend Edition Sunday Lulu Garcia Navarro and N.P.R.'s Nathan Rott answer your questions about environmental protection under President Trump. A crime novel set in Ramallah has been outlawed there and in another Palestinian cities the Palestinian Authority's attorney general banned the book he said it contains indecent terms that threaten public morality now the author's gone into hiding N.P.R.'s Joanna cases spoke to him and sent this report about he has been writing controversial novels about Palestinian society for years speaking to n.p.r. Via Skype the 28 year old writer says his critics usually complain about the same things sometimes it needs to get to it isn't it and this secret in a people to succeed and say can educate me something like this yeah she expected similar criticism of his recent 4th novel titled crime in Ramallah it follows the lives of 3 young men affected by the murder of a woman in the city where the Palestinian Authority has its headquarters It also protégés the authorities leaders as ineffective and corrupt. Me. And. It is it is it is you know. It is what people need I think the last month they wrote in Facebook posts that they wanted to lynch him and burn bookstores carrying his latest novel they were especially outraged that one of the characters is a gay man who has a sexual fantasy about Yasser Arafat's. Yahia says he was shocked at the venom especially in Ramallah a lively city where he's always felt free to write what he wants then he heard police had detained his novels distributor for wod a clique. I met the clique at a bookstore in Ramallah he tells me what happened. When the police asked me where do you get the books who did you distribute the books to where your copies the Palestinian authorities attorney general. Had issued a statement saying The book is indecent police and then ask the bookstores owner Hodder Abraham obese to hand over copies of the book. But I only had one left out people had heard about the crackdown 17 just a few hours the last time Palestinian authorities banned a book 10 years ago at that time the militant group Hamas was in charge of the Education Ministry and the book was a folktale anthology distributed to schools yet he says he never expected censorship from more progressive Palestinian Authority officials in the. City again immigrates. They take. But he adds they act like conservatives at home because they're so unpopular Yahia was in Qatar when he heard police were looking for him he canceled a public appearance at a book club in the West Bank city of Novelis due to death threats book club members like Amman felt threatened even reading the book in public as she told n.p.r. Via Skype no one can hold this book and. You must but it's in a bag or something so it's like having to stay up against something illegal and hiding Yahia isn't hiding himself somewhere in the Middle East he won't disclose his location because he fears he will be arrested or harmed Meanwhile the pan center a literary organization which promotes free speech has offered him a fellowship in Germany Joanna n.p.r. News in Ramallah the West Bank. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Scott Simon. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Member stations and from vital projects fund supporting the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan where the exhibit Francis become our heads are round so our thoughts can change is on view more information and tickets at Moma dot org from Ebsco working in partnership with open source library technologies and open access journals to support libraries and their users learn more at eb Scott dot com and from the William t. Grant foundation at w.t. Grant Foundation dot org. 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