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Danny talks to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, about the latest refugee crisis resulting from the war in the former Yugoslavia. Tens of thousands of Serb refugees are on the run, fleeing from Krajina after the Croatian army invaded that area. Krajina had been held by rebel Serbs. Now most of the area is back in Croatian hands.

This past Friday, the Senate Appropriations ommittee voted to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by forty ercent. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington Post reporter Jacqueline rescott about the steps that eventually lead to these final reduction ecisions.

Daniel talks to Joe Arpaio, sherrif of Maricopa County Arizona, who has a program to arrest parents who are delinquent in their child support payments. Arpaio uses his volunteer posse to track down mothers and fathers who have fallen so far behind in their payments that warrants have been issued for their arrest. They are taken to jail, and their bail is set at the amount of money they owe.

THIS MORNING, SHANNON FAULKNER IS SCHEDULED TO REPORT FOR CLASSES AT THE CITADEL. WE LISTEN TO PART OF AN INTERVIEW DONE LAST MONTH WHERE NPR'S LINDA WERTHEIMER ASKED SHANNON FAULKNER ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN ... AS LEADERS.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the issue of abortion occupied the Senate's attention today in a rare Saturday session. At issue: whether to prevent federal employees from using their health insurance to pay for abortions.

Danny talks to Hiroko Harris, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. She was 13 when the bomb fell. She later came to the US for medical treatment, and evenutally married a Baltimore cab driver. She now lives in a small town outside Hiroshima.

Ken Dermata reports from Bogota on the arrest of Manuel Rodriguez Ortega, the reported leader of the Cali drug cartel. He is the sixth leader of a drug cartel to be arrested since June. Rodriguez has been linked to drug traffiking for more than 25 years but was formally charged for the first time in Columbia in 1994.

Daniel talks to Neil Munro, a reporter for Washington Techonology newspaper and Robert Ayers, chief of the Pentagon's defense information systems agency's information warfare divison, about the possibility of an infowar... an attack on the communications systems that support the defense of the United States. Enemy countries or terrorists could sabotage the civillian phone, air traffic control, and power systems on which the militray depends by linking up with international computer networks like the Internet.

BOSNIA: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S TOM GJELTEN IN BIHAC ABOUT THE FIRST U.N. AID CONVOYS TO GET THROUGH TO THE ENCLAVE SINCE LAST NOVEMBER. THE SO-CALLED U.N. SAFE ZONE HAS BEEN UNDER SEIGE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS; LAST WEEK THE CROATIAN ARMY ROUTED THE KRAJINA SERBS, OPENING A PATH FOR THE U.N. AID TRUCKS.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR reporter Mike Shuster in agreb about the Croatian military offensive that has successfully reclaimed the ebel Serb's Krajina (krah-YEEN-a) region within only three days. Croatian resident Franjo Tudjman ordered the massive attack on the Serb stronghold of nin (knihn), which has been held by Serb rebels since 1991.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including United Nations official Alan Roberts commenting on the scalating situation in Croatia; a Hiroshima bombing survivor remembering the vents 50 years ago; Deputy Attorney General Phillip Heyman on the investigation nto the Clinton administration's involvement in the Whitewater affair; Thomas urphy, the CEO for Captial Cities, speaking about the acquisition of Captial ities/ABC last week by the Walt Disney Company; Michael Jordon, Chairman of the estinghouse Corporation, commenting on the merger of Westinghouse and CBS; epresentative Jack Fields (R-TX) and Representative John Conyers (D-MI) ommenting on telecommunications legislation; Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich R-GA) on campaign reform; and President Bill Clinton commenting on Newt ingrich's failure to follow through on promises made when the two shook hands n New Hampshire last month.