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Danny speaks with writer Tina Rosenberg about her new book, called The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism (Random House). They discuss how the people of the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia are dealing with their communist pasts.

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Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in itez, where British troops of the United Nations peacekeeper rapid reaction orce are preparing to move into the hills above Sarajevo. The UN troops hope to tem the seige by Serb rebels of the Bosnian capital city.

Surgeon SUSAN LOVE. She is the founding member of the Breast Cancer Coalition. LOVE is also the founding director of the UCLA Breast Cancer, which is one of the world's leading breast treatment facilities. Her book Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (Addison Wesley) is said to be one of the most important books in women's health in the last decade. A new updated second edition has just been published.

SIMON/MOTHER TERESA: SCOTT SIMON REFLECTS ON MOTHER TERESA'S CURRENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE SHE HAS BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT HER WORK AND HER ORDER THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY. (MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - 335 EAST 145TH STREET - BRONX, NY 10451)

WE HEAR, ONCE AGAIN, TAPES MADE BY SCOTT SIMON'S FATHER WHEN SCOTT WAS JUST A CHILD. (MICHAEL SMITH'S SONG "I BROUGHT MY FATHER WITH ME" IS ON HIS NEW CD "TIME" ON FLYING FISH RECORDS - 1-800-FYI-FISH/FF70613. SING OUT! MAGAZINE, P.O. BOX 5253, BETHLEHEM, PA. 18015, 1-800-4-WESING)

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and repeats he two-week challenge. 7:18 This week's on-air player lives in Portland, Oregon and listens to KOPB).

SIMON/ANCHOVIES: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DAVID GARRISON, A BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ, ABOUT HIS THEORY ABOUT A STRANGE BIRD ATTACK THAT OCCURRED IN TOWNS AROUND THE MONTEREY BAY IN 1961 AND INSPIRED ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'THE BIRDS'.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the debate over the ecision to use two atom bombs to end the second world world.

Suzanne Stevens of member station WFAE reports on the erdict in the Susan Smith murder trial. Yesterday, a jury in Union, South arolina convicted Smith of First-Degree Murder. Smith had confessed to drowning er two sons in a lake. The penalty phase of the trial begins Monday.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT "INDEPENDENT" FILMS.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.