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HOST SUSAN STAMBERG, A FORMER SMOKER, REMEMBERS HER FIRST CIGARETTE.

Daniel speaks with NPR's David Welna, who's in Port au Prince, Haiti. Haitians voted today in local and parliamentary elections designed to makeup for a tainted vote in June. Welna says voter turnout was very low, largely because opposition parties boycotted the balloting.

Rebekah Presson has a remembrance of writer Frank Waters, who ied earlier this month at the age of 92. Waters was considered to be one of his country's most prominent writers about the Native American culture and the outhwestern United States.

LETTERS: Liane Hansen reads a few letters from listeners.

Michael visits the exhibit "Edward Hopper and the American Imagination" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Hopper's art has influenced many American arts in the 20th century, especially film.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jack Calhoun cal-HOON), the Executive Director of the National Crime Prevention Council in ashington, D.C., and Buffalo City Court Judge Eugene Fahey (fay-hee) about the ffectivness of youth curfews. Mr. Calhoun says the curfews will only be uccessful if they constitute one part of a community-wide effort that includes arental involvement and recreational programs.

Michael talks to British Memeber of Parliament George Walden, a member of the Conservative party, about Tuesday's vote for party leader. Walden says that the issue of Britian's integration into Europe is a red herring in the current political situation and that most of his constituents are more concerned about the economy and taxes.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with Richard Harpootlian har-POOT-lee-un), a defense lawyer in Columbia, South Carolina, about the imilarities and differences between the O.J. Simpson and Susan Smith murder rials. In contrast to the long, drawn-out Simpson trial, Susan Smith's was fast nd decisive.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr ruminates on Colin Powell's otential as a candidate in the 1996 Presidential race.

Danny gets an update on Bosnia developments from NPR reporters Andy Bowers (in Zagreb) and Michael Goldfarb (in London). They talk about the Serb assault on Zepa and about a meeting of US, French and British military chiefs in London.

NPR'S PATRICIA NEIGHMOND REPORTS ON THE CONTINUING DEBATE IN MEDICARE REFORM.