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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.

The first installment in a 6-part series from ward-winning producer Julian Crandall Hollick (HAH-lick). Four years ago, ollick was invited to live with the poor, illiterate pavement-dwellers on Apna treet, in downtown Bombay. The pavement dwellers are, for the most part, orking poor people who can't afford traditional housing. In the first episode, The Dance of the Water Spirits," Julian looks at the daily struggle to obtain ne of the necessities of life - water.

Biographer TAD SZULC (Schultz) has a new book, Pope John Paul II: The Biography. (Scribner) The book details the Pope's early years in Poland through his climb to the papacy after being elevated to archbishop in 1963. Szulc traveled with the Pope extensively, had access to many of his private papers and interviewed many of the Pope's old schoolmates, friends and fellow priests. Szulc is a former New York Times bureau chief.

2: PAUL SIMMS, creator of the new NBC sit-com "News Radio." This is SIMMS' first entry into the world of sit-coms but SIMMS previously worked as writer for both the "The Larry Sanders Show," and "Late Night with David Letterman." He also wrote for Spy Magazine.