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FROM MEMBER STATION WNYC, BETH FERTIG REPORTS THAT SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS ARE THREATENING TO STRIKE NEXT WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY, STRANDING 150 THOUSAND STUDENTS.

2: Writer MARTIN AMIS, author of The Information (Harmony Books). The book is about rivalry in the literary world, which some have said parallels AMIS' own life. Britain's literary world was shocked when AMIS demanded a half-million pound advance on The Information, supposedly to pay for his divorce and costly dental work, and then dumped his long-time agent, who was also the wife of his best friend. The New York Times has called The Information "an uncompromising and highly ambitious novel that should also be a big popular hit." REV 1: Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Scott Spencer's new book, Men In Black (

2: DR. ROBERT TEMPLE, Director of the FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation. TEMPLE is a large figure in Thomas Moore's new book. He is the man Moore says let the harmful drugs remain on the market virtually unrestricted, even though the risks were known. He gives the reason why the FDA let the drugs remain on the market.

JONATHAN MILLER REPORTS ON CONGRESSIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS BEING HELD NEXT WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING THE CANDIDACY OF FERDINAND MARCOS, JR., KNOWN THERE AS "BONG-BONG."

SIMON/FISH: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BOSTON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LES KAUFMAN, ABOUT HIS PLAN TO FUND HIS RESEARCH AND SAVE ENDAGERED FISH. FOR FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS, DOZENS OF LUCKY DONORS WILL BE ABLE TO NAME A SPECIES OF FISH IN LAKE VICTORIA IN EASTERN AFRICA.

Novelist SCOTT SPENCER. His new book, Men In Black (Knopf), was called "charmingly funny-sad" by the New York Times. His previous books include Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball, Endless Love, and Waking the Dead. SPENCER has been writing for most of his life, but says that "there is really nothing interesting about my life of a biographical nature -- born, raised, educated, etc., etc.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Joan Osborne''s debut album "Relish."

mmentator GERALD EARLY reflects on saxophonist Charlie Parker. His commentary is inspired by "Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes" (Clef Records).

NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE ON PRESIDENT CLINTON'S TRIP TO HAITI TO ATTEND CEREMONIES AT WHICH HE HANDED OVER PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS THERE TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

SPORTS: HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE NEW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON, WHERE FANS HAVE REACTED HARSHLY TO THE LAST YEAR'S STRIKE WITH ROWDYISM TOWARD PLAYERS AND BY STAYING AWAY FROM GAMES.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including Attorney General Janet Reno on Cuban refugees at Guantanamo, resident Bill Clinton on militias, Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the ran trade embargo, South African Foreign Minister Alfred Inzo on nuclear isarmament, Dr. Henry Foster on his nomination as Surgeon General, Senator Dan oats (R-IN) and Senator Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) on Foster's nomination as urgeon General.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL PATTERSON, HEAD OF COMPOSITION AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC IN LONDON, ABOUT A WORK BY HUNGARIAN COMPOSER GYORGY (Gzeorgze) LIGETI (LIH-gih-tee), PERFORMED LAST WEEK AT THE INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS FESTIVAL IN LONDON SO DIFFICULT TO PLAY...IT HAD TO BE PERFORMED BY A COMPUTER.