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SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT VETERAN N.F.L. QUARTERBACK JOE MONTANA, WHO WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT NEXT WEEK.

Daniel talks with brain surgeon Richard Fraser of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 130 years ago Friday. Fraser maintains that the bullet John Wilkes Booth fired would have disabled the president but need not have killed him. Shoddy medical care, even by nineteenth century standards, served only to worsen the dire situation.

STARK: Popular culture commentator Steven Stark looks into his rystal ball and sees a nation obsessed with psychic and astrological affairs

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest in the investigation of the bombing last week in Oklahoma city. Authorities are pursuing leads across the country in an effort to find the suspect John Doe #2 and any others with potential links to the blast.

2: Writer/Director KAYO HATTA. Hatta's film "Picture Bride," is the story of a young woman who moves to Hawaii as a "picture bride." Picture brides were Japanese women who moved to Hawaii in order to marry the Japanese plantation workers who settled there. The women would only have seen a picture of their future husband before they were married. The film is HATTA'S first commercial release and the first Hawaiian production to gain a commercial release. "Picture Bride," won the 1995 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for best dramatic film.

2: Biologist EDWARD O. WILSON has been called "The Ant Man" by The New York Times Magazine. He has spent most of his life studying ants and other insects, and has written a number of books on the subject. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed The Ants with Bert Holldobler. The pair have just published a sequel to that work, Journey to the Ants (The Belkap Press of Harvard University Press), and WILSON has written a memoir, Naturalist (Island Press), that chronicles his love of ants. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

G. Gordon Liddy, who has been in the news lately because of harsh nti-government remarks he made on his radio talk show, is, according to NPR enior news analyst Daniel Schorr, a man who has always operated "on the edge"

TELEVISION VIEWING: Commentator Mike Renfro gives us his TV "wish ist."

LETTERS: We hear a few comments and letters from our listeners

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.