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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.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE SUCCESS, THIS YEAR, OF BASEBALL'S CLEVELAND INDIANS. THE PERENNIAL LOSERS CURRENTLY HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was etonated in the New Mexico desert. This marked the beginning of the nuclear ge, and the ignited the spark that fired the nuclear arms race. The test-bomb as designed and built with remarkable speed by some of the nation's top hysicists.

Jacki talks to NPR's Davis Welna about today's municipal and legislative elections in Haiti. It was the first vote in Haiti since the U.S. military intervened there last September.

Micahel talks with NPR's Anne Garrels about the vote of confidence by the Russian Parliament for President Boris Yeltsin today. The last time Yeltsin faced the Russian Parliament like this, tanks ended up on the streets of Moscow. This time the vote was over Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR reporter Sunni Khalid bout the Egyptian Moslem community's reaction to the plight of Muslim refugees n Bosnia.

Jazz Critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews Karl Denson''s new CD "Chunky Pecan Pie" (Minor Music).

Senegalese musician Vieux Diop spent his childhood listening to all kinds of music, but his favorite was American blues. Now, Diop lives in New York and travels to schools teaching kids about traditional African music. He joins us in our studios to play one of his instruments.

President Clinton spoke in Honolulu Hawaii today to comemorate the signing of the Japanese surrender 50 years ago which Second World War. We'll hear an excerpt from the President's speech.

NPR's John McChesney reviews the efforts to crack down on kiddie porn on the internet. The FBI and America on Line worked together to find pedophiles using the private networks to solicit sex with minors, resulting in arrests and further ongoing investigations.