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NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on how much the O.J. Simpson trial is costing. No one knows how long the trial will take, but cost estimates now are about 700-thousand dollars a month.

Seventy-two year old writer William Gaddis recently received is second National Book Award for the satirical novel, "A Frolic of His Own," n absurd take on the American legal system. Rebekah Presson profiles this elebrated, but often reclusive, American author.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR EDWARD SIRATA, WHO IS CURRENTLY IN SARAJEVO. TODAY, BOSNIA'S MUSLIM PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO RETURN THE HAGGADAH, A PRICELESS MEDIEVAL PASSOVER BOOK AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS IN JEWISH HISTORY, BACK TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.

FROM LONDON, NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDFARB REPORTS ON THE ON-GOING DISPUTE BETWEEN CANADA AND SPAIN OVER FISHING GROUNDS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, said he answer to the welfare problem is "responsibility through empowerment". State fficials in North Carolina have been considering the prospect of requiring food tamp recipients to work for their government assistance. Adam Hochberg reports hat current plans to revamp the system are being met with local opposition as ounties realize the effects new work assignments may have on elderly food stamp ecipients.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

Many controls imposed on the warring factions in Bosnia Hercegovina ave been slowly disintegrating as the deadline for the four-month cease-fire ears its May 1st expiration date. Areas once deemed safe and protected have ome under fire, and heavy shelling and firefighting have erupted between osnian government troops and Serbian forces throughout the region. Richard arruthers reports from Zagreb on the current turmoil in Bosnia as the United ations works to extend the deadline.

JUDITH MUSICK, director of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, a pregnancy prevention and teenage-parent programs in Illinois, and author of the new book, Young, Poor and Pregnant: The Psychology of Teenage Motherhood (Yale University Press). Musick believes that impoverished adolescent girls become young mothers as an attempt to create a future and an identity. Musick's publicist's # at YUP: (203)432

Actor Chazz Palminteri was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Woody Allen's film "Bullets over Broadway."

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG looks at how some proper nouns, lose their capital letter status, but in exchange gain a coveted slot as common nouns.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

AS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BOMBING IN OKLAHOMA CITY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS SO FAR.