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Leda (LEE-dah) Hartman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on New Hampshire, the only state not to honor Martin Luther King with a day of his own. This year it gets a bit uglier, as a white supremacist group from Mississippi stages a demonstration at the statehouse.

Tamil Tiger rebels are believed to have exploded a truck bomb in Colombo, Ski Lanka. Robert talks to Vijita Yapa of the London Times about the explosion and the governments efforts to deal with the rebel group.

Sound artist Gregory Whitehead demonstrates the evolution of the human brain with the help of some mashed potatoes and imagination.

Linda talks to Ellen Forch (FORSH) - A Research Scientist for the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. She talks about the caputre of one of the world's most elusive creatures. A giant squid. This one was 24 feet long and weighed one ton.

have calculated that the number of those infected with HIV appears to have stabilized. In New York State, the number of HIV infected women giving birth has actually dropped, but nationwide, the number of infections among young gay men appears to be going up.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impending end a federal program that was started in the late-1960s to provide subsidized housing for the poor in middle class white neighborhoods. The program grew out of a 1966 discrimination lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority and the federal Deparatment of Housing and Urban Development. Advocates are lobbying Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to continue the subsidies.

SCOTT PONDERS THE THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WEEK'S NEW ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES -- CAN SUCH AN IMMENSE UNIVERSE BE THE PRODUCT OF CHANCE? -- WITH OWEN GINGERICH, PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Sarajevo that the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia reported today that the former-warring parties had separated their forces by a Friday deadline, as required by the Dayton peace accord. However, that same deadline called for a full exchange of prisoners of war, which has not taken place.

Former British diplomat LORD DAVID OWEN has written a new memoir about his efforts to broker a peace plan in the Former Yugoslavia. It is called "Balkan Odyssey." published by Harcourt Brace. Owen along with Cyrus Vance drafted the Vance-Owen peace plan that was considered but never adopted by the warring sides.

President Clinton went to New Hampshire today for a two-day visit and some campaigning despite the fact he is unchallenged in the Democratic Primaries. He spoke this afternoon to parents, teachers and students at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord about education and economic growth. We hear excerpts of that speech.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says the best Republican candidates are the ones who aren't running...in particular Jack Kemp. He's a great speaker, is a caring conservative and energetic...a good match-up against Clinton.