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a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St Louis, about the security at the U.S. military base where the attack occurred.

Robert talks with Lionel Barber of The Financial Times about the European Unions decision to ban British beef. Barber says this decision to ban a product is not UNprecedented, in fact there have been other bans imposed by the E-U in recent years.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the reaction to the life sentence given to Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last November. Most people welcomed the sentence, though they have yet to come to terms with the traumatic events surrounding the assassination.

Commentator George Berdes (BURR-diss) is a retired foreign policy analyst, living in Eagle River Wisconsin. He says it's no fun to be stereotyped as a senior citizen and tells the story about the time he walked into a restaurant and the "cute-young thing" behind the countertreated him as if he were deaf, dumb and blind.

This year's run drew a record number of entrants... almost 40,000 runners. But all the extras didn't seem to distract the favorites.

Robert talks with Dan Swift, president of the Riverside Sheriff's Association. Swift attended a rally held yesterday in support of two deputies who were videotaped beating two illegal immigrants from Mexico. The Mexicans were beaten April 1st after they ran through a border patrol checkpoint in a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants. Swift says what has not yet been determined is whether a reasonable amount of force was applied and the videotape only shows the moment of the arrest.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that 'most-favored-nation' status for China...known as M-F-N...is shaping up as Presidential campaign issue. Pat Buchanan and other leading Republicans are calling for revocation of M-F-N. President Clinton wants to extend it. Bob Dole is caught in the middle. In the past Dole is on record favoring M-F-N for China and yet he wants to differeniate himself from his rival for the presidency.

Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Howard Berkes about the release today of a list of items found in the cabin of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kasczynski. The list, released by a judge today in Helena, Montana, includes banal as well as highly suspicious items: a can of soldering wire, maps of Sacramento, California (site of one killing attributed to the Unabomber), a live bomb, a gun... It is now up to prosecutors to build a case with the help of this evidence. Kasczynski has yet to be charged with committing the Unabomber attacks.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Bosnia that the war crimes investigation team collecting evidence from mass grave sites has finished its first mission. The team visited ten different sites. The forensic evidence gathered is being flown back to War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague.

Actor ROBERT DUVALL. His roles include his film debut as Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird," a crazy colonel in "Apocalypse Now," counsel to the mob in "Godfather" I and II, and a country singer in "Tender Mercies" (for which he won a Oscar). In all he's acted in more than 50 films. His latest is "A Family Thing," in which he co-stars with James Earl Jones. REV: Rock historian ED WARD begins a series on the instruments of rock n' roll. Today's installment is drums.

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

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on United States officials' worries that the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs are still in power four months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The accord calls for Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic to step down. The two have been indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. Arrest warrants have been issued.