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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH JOURNALIST DEAN MILLER IN IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, ABOUT THE DEMOTION YESTERDAY OF THE FBI'S NUMBER 2 OFFICIAL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR LARRY POTTS. MR. POTTS SUPERVISED THE 1992 SIEGE IN RUBY RIDGE, IDAHO, WHERE THE UNARMED WIFE AND 14-YEAR-OLD SON OF A WHITE SUPREMACIST WERE KILLED. HE ALSO SUPERVISED THE 1993 SIEGE OF THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN COMPOUND IN WACO, TEXAS.

Alice Furlaud (FUR-low) begins a series of "postcards" on the ost-World War Two period. In today's segment, Alice describes how her usband-to-be, who served in the Marines during the War, learned of the iroshima bomb and his relief at being spared from invading Japan.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR ISABEL ALLENDE ABOUT HER NEW MEMOIR "PAULA," PUBLISHED BY HARPER COLLINS.

Daniel talks with Jovan Zamatitsa, adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karajich, from Pale, capital of the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic. Zamatitsa denies Bosnian Serb troops have raped or murdered refugees from Srebrenica, and he says Muslims from that town left voluntarily.

a-thon - Daniel speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold from Dallas, where she's covering Ross Perot's political forum. Today, all the leading Republican contenders for President spoke to the gathering.

The Farmer's Market in Los Angeles has been going strong for ome 60 years now. It's a colorful collection of fruit stands and eateries. eekend Edition essayist Lester Sloan profiles the "mayor of the Farmer's arket"...a woman who has seen it all in her many years on the sidelines of one f the city's most distinctive landmarks.

Mike O'Connor reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian Serb forces have surrounded the so-called safe haven of Zhepa and can take it any time. The Serbs earlier this week took another safe area, the village of Srebrenica.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the strained elationship between the press and the courts, in light of the decision by Los ngeles judge Lance Ito NOT to allow testimony from a reporter at the O.J. impson trial.

NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI REPORTS FROM BELGRADE ON THE LATEST IN THE ON-GOING CONFLICT IN BOSNIA.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 7:09 This week's on-air player lives in San Francisco and listens to

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Baseball great Mickey Mantle died early this morning. Daniel talks with 'Sporting News' columnist Dave Kindred about Mantle's incredible skill as an athlete as well as about the tragedy he confronted in his life....a tragedy Mantle cautioned young people to avoid in a press conference shortly before he died.