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Brian Bland of This Way Out reports from Los Angeles, California on the verdict reached by juries in the federal trials against the police officers who beat Rodney King; Brief comments are offered by an unidentified speaker in praise of the prosecution in the trial of the police officers who beat Rodney King; Additional commentary is provided by the same unidentified speaker; Further commentary is provided by the same unidentified speaker; Concluding commentary is provided by the same unidentified speaker; Brief comments are offered by a different unidentified speaker on the trials against the police officers who beat Rodney King; Wendell Goler interviews Bill Clinton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about the verdicts in the federal trials against the police officers who beat Rodney King; Wendell Goler interviews Bill Clinton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about the filibuster on his 1993 “Jobs Bill” intended to stimulate the economy; Excerpt of a newscast; Upcoming programming is announced. Nora Raum presents current news updates. Susan Stamberg presents Weekend Edition. Stamberg interviews Danny Bakewell about the verdicts in the federal trials against the police officers who beat Rodney King. A brief clip of Car Talk plays over the program's outro; Anne Garrels reports from Chelyabinsk, Russia on a series of national and local government referendums measuring popular confidence in the policies instituted by Boris Yeltsin. Recording cuts off; Fiona Ritchie presents Thistle & Shamrock for National Public Radio (NPR). “Western Highway” by Maura O’Connell, “Lead the Knave/Bunker Hill” by Arty McGlynn & Nollaig Casey, “Lang A Growin’” by Gill Bowman, “Snechd Heisger (The Snows of Heisgeir)/Sleepy Maggie” by Alison Kinnaird and Christine Primrose, “My Heart It Belongs To She” by Andy M. Stewart and Manus Lunny, “Dacw ‘Nghariad” by Bob Delyn A’r Ebillion, “Chi Mi Na Morbheanna” by Mouth Music & Talitha MacKenzie, “The Blackbird” by Pat Kilbride, “The Man Is Alive” by Luka Bloom, and “Jimmy Lyon’s/The Teelin/The Red Crow/The Broken Bridge” by Altan play. Ritchie signs off; Excerpt of introduction to the radio program Afropop Worldwide.