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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.

World Music Critic, MILO MILES reviews Arab pop album "Sif Safaa: New Music From The Middle East" (Hanan, "Ya Leyl A'' ah").

Critic Bob Mondello chronicles the influence that the atomic bomb has had on Hollywood movies. Some movies plots have shown the drama of narrowly-averting nuclear war, others have depicted the aftereffects of a bomb, and yet others have poked fun at the cold war.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SENATOR JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ), MEMBER OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE LEE HAMILTON (D-IN), RANKING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, ABOUT THE DIVISIONS OVER U.S. POLICY IN BOSNIA.

CROATIA: THE THREAT OF A WIDER WAR IN THE NATIONS THAT ONCE WERE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA SEEMS MORE REAL THIS MORNING. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER IN ZAGREB, CROATIA.

Reporter Jyl Hoyt from member station KBSU reports on plans by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce grizzly bears into areas of central Idaho. But the local population is divided over the issue.

Danny talks with psychotherapist Robert Akeret, author of Tales from a Traveling Couch (Norton Books). The book is Akeret's personal account of re-visiting former patients to see how their lives have developed over many years. And to ask himself whether or not therapy made any significant difference in their lives.

DEBBIE ELLIOTT REPORTS ON THE DILEMMA FACING POOR STATES SUCH AS ALABAMA AS A RESULT OF CONGRESS' DOWNSIZING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CUTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS WHICH REPRESENT A SIZEABLE PORTION OF STATE BUDGETS.