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SCOTT SIMON RE-INTRODUCES US TO VAUGHN deLEATH, FIRST LADY OF RADIO... BORN AND BURIED IN MOUNT PULASKI, ILLINOIS.

WORST-SELLING AUTHOR: Essayist Tim Brookes published his first ook last year, and he's been watching the sales figures.

SCOTT SIMON REMEMBERS WRITER TERRY SOUTHERN. THE SATIRIST, WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WROTE THE SCREENPLAY FOR THE MOVIE "DR. STRANGELOVE."

Liane Hansen speaks with Brian Urquhart (UR-cart) about the osnia peace plan. As former undersecretary General of the United Nations for pecial Political Affairs, he has seen many agreements like this drawn up in the ast, and puts the Bosnian accord into a historical context.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

NPR'S TED CLARK REPORTS ON TWO IMPORTANT LEADERS MISSING AT THE SIGNING OF THE LATEST ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE AGREEMENT THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE WHITE HOUSE LAST THURSDAY....PRESIDENT HAFEZ ASSAD (AH-sahd) OF SYRIA AND PRESIDENT ILIYAS HARAWI OF LEBANON.

NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE REPORTS ON THE REACTION FROM THE PRIESTS OF SCARED HEART CHURCH IN NEW YORK'S HELL'S KITCHEN TO THE BOOK "SLEEPERS," THAT HAS BEEN ON THE NEW YORK TIME'S NON-FICTION BESTSELLER LIST FOR THE PAST 10 WEEKS.

Daniel talks to James Rupert, a reporter for the Washington Post who has been travelling to the Chechen capital of Grozny. Rupert says that most of the people left living in the city are old. The young people have the money to flee to the countryside, but the stste pensions of the old people have been cut off and they have no way to get out of the city.

From Kansas City, NPR's Laura Ziegler reports on a prison program that encourages regular people to contact and visit inmates at a federal penitentiary. The idea is to provide inmates with human contact and a positive example of how to live outside of prison.

mas Bonuses - Daniel talks with Michael Lewis an editor at the New Republic Magazine. Mr. Lewis is a former Wall Street stockbroker and they'll talk about the drastically reduced Christmas bonuses handed out by Wall Street this year. They'll also talk about the climate that pervades the annual bonus season.

Robert Smith of member station KUOW in Seattle reports on the esolution of a dispute between the State of Washington and American Indian ribes over fishing rights. A federal judge has ruled that early treaties give 4 tribes the right to harvest half of the shellfish along Puget Sound. Now, ashington State and the tribes will need to find a way to balance treaty rights ith private property rights.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr has read two new books by ormer KGB operatives, and finds fiction may be more fascinating than the truth. :30 The books discussed are "My Five Cambridge Friends," by Yuri Modin, and Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America," by Yuri Sh