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NPR's Maria Hinojosa revisits a Cuban family she last saw boarding a makeshift raft headed towards the United States. Nine months later the family has settled in Miami, but they are far from happy with their new life.

Actor BILL PULLMAN. He taught drama at the University of Montana, where he rose to department head at age 27. PULLMAN later made his acting debut in "Ruthless People." This year alone, he is featured in the films, "Casper," "While You Were Sleeping," and "The Last Seduction."

Rock Critic, KEN TUCKER reviews country singer, Dwight Yoakam''s, first concert album, "Dwight Live."

SIMON/ORANGE CUCUMBER: A CUCUMBER, NEW TO THIS COUNTRY, ORANGE WHEN CUT OPEN AND HIGH IN BETA CAROTENE, IS NOW GROWING VERY WELL AT THE USDA'S VEGETABLE CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, AND SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PHILLIPP SIMON, A RESEARCH GENETICIST IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT.

FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE CUBAN BAND LOS VAN VAN (lohs VAHN vahn) HAS PERFORMED SONGS THAT SLYLY CRITICIZE THE PITFALLS OF EVERYDAY CUBAN LIFE, WHILE CELEBRATING THAT CULTURE'S EXUBERANCE WITH A RHYTHM THAT IS IRRESISTABLE. THE BAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ON THE ISLAND BECAUSE THE MUSICIANS ARE SINGING ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO COME TO HEAR THEM. NPR'S JOHN BURNETT VISITED CUBA AND TALKED TO SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF LOS VAN VAN...AND SOME OF THEIR FANS.

Movie Critic, STEVEN SCHIFF reviews "Bridges of Madison County," starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews from Bosnia, including President Bill Clinton offering assitance to NATO orces; President of the UN Security Council Detlev Graf Zu Rantzau (DET'-lef RAHF zoo RANT'-zow); NATO Allied Forces spokesperson Janis Witt confirming eports that the downed American pilot is alive; and United Nations spokespeople lexander Evanco and Shashi Tharur.

A recent Newsweek poll suggests that the majority of Americans elieve we should not send troops to Bosnia. Liane Hansen speaks with historian nd author Ronald Steel about the contraints that domestic politics places on oreign policy.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the presidential ecision to employ U.S. military intervention throughout modern American istory.

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG reviews talk radio.

During the Vietnam War, a westerner named Lady Borton worked in he war-torn region with the Quaker Service Rehabilitation Center. Following he end of the conflict, she was granted access to villages in Northern Vietnam here other Westerners were not so readily permitted to enter. Host Jacki Lyden peaks with Lady Borton, who comes to us by phone from Hanoi, about the local eaction to President Clinton's decision to normalize relations between the nited States and Vietnam.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on the apanese city of Hiroshima ushered in the dawn of the nuclear age. From iroshima, NPR reporter Julie McCarthy covers the 50th anniversary memorial eremony being held in Peace Park, which was built near ground zero in memory of he victims of the destructive bomb that ended the second World War.