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ALL STATIONS FROM: MARTA HAYWOOD RE: WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY/SECOND RUNDOWN DATE: JUNE 17, 1995 HOST: SCOTT SIMON NEWS: BILL REDLIN, LAURA KNOY

Mike O'Conner reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian government troops are trying to consolidate their gains in a military offensive unleashed over the past few days.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Paul Lukas, Editor and Publisher of EER FRAME: THE JOURNAL OF INCONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION. They talk about the most ecent issue of the journal, which includes commentary on musk-flavored Life avers, the Reese's "NutRageous" candy bar, and "Pilots" beer. There are no subscriptions to BEER FRAME - to get the issue #4 or the next ssue, send $2.00, cash, check or money order, payable to Paul Lukas to BEER RAME, 160 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Issues of BEER FRAME are also vailable at Tower Books.)

2: Actor/Comedian RICHARD PRYOR. This nationally acclaimed comedian has recently released his book Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences (Pantheon Books). Pryor's autobiographical novel takes readers on a journey through his successful yet struggle-filled life. A strong man who has overcome such ordeals as a drug addiction, self immolation, and six marriages, Pryor is determined to overcome his most recent battle with multiple sclerosis.

Executive Director of the Institute for Legislative Action, the National Rifle Association's (NRA's) Lobbying Arm TANYA METAKSA (Mah-TAX-a). She responds to criticism of the letter sent to NRA members calling federal agents "jackbooted Government thugs." Metaksa denies that the group has any association with paramilitary groups. The NRA has suffered image problems since the Oklahoma City Bombing. The group recently ended their national convention.

MICHAEL LELAND & LAURA KNOY

The country of China is going through a period of ransition. Where socialism was once a way of life, capitalism and ntreprenuership now are on the rise. NPR's Ted Clark reports on how the conomic and political changes are fostering deep-rooted sociological ransformations within modern Chinese culture.

President Clinton today lashed out at Republican lawmakers who derailed the nomination of doctor Henry Foster for Surgeon General earlier this week. The President said the GOP was being taken over by extreme right-wing groups who would stop at nothing to outlaw abortion. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

With everyone from Kenny G to US3 claiming the label "jazz," Dean Olsher tries to figure out what exactly jazz is.

Filmmaker, DEBORAH HOFFMAN. She produced, directed and wrote the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter." In the documentary, which airs on PBS's "Point Of View" series June 6, HOFFMAN tells how she copes with her mother, Doris, now 87, who began suffering memory lapses in the early 1980s and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in 1991.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO TALK-SHOW HOST JOHN ROBBIE ABOUT THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL RUGBY TEAM, THE SPRINGBOKS, WHO WILL BE PLAYING IN TODAY'S RUGBY WORLD CUP FINAL AGAINST THE ALL BLACKS OF NEW ZEALAND. THE SPORT THAT FORMERLY DIVIDED THE COUNTRY IS NOW UNITING IT.

ESSAY: 18-YEAR-OLD JOHN FEDOTA OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ONE OF THE WINNERS OF NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "COMING OF AGE" CONTEST, READS US HIS ESSAY TITLED "HOW LITTLE WE SEE."