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NPR's Howard Berkes reports that there's an answer to the great infant formula mystery. The mystery opened a year ago, when strange reports began coming in from all over the country. Men and boys were walking into discount stores, and buying cartloads of baby formula with fists full of cash. Suspicious police called in the F-B-I, the customs service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the State Department and the Immigration Service. But no one figured out why baby formula was such a hot commodity. Until now.

Jacki talks with former senator John Danforth about the need for social security reform. Danforth says that by the year 2029, if not before, the social security program will be bankrupt and that entitlement programs will consume all federal taxes. Danforth faults politicians for not having the courage to stake their political futures on addressing this issue.

Every year for the past 19 years, the Actors Theater of ouisville (Loo-UH-vull) mounts its Humana (Hyu-MAN-ah) Festival of New American lays. During the months of March and April, playwrights have the opportunity to xperience the entire production process of their scripts, as well as experiment ith critic and audience reaction to their works in progress. Naomi Lewin LOO-in) of member station W-K-Y-U spoke to those involved in this year's event, s well as to some who have taken part since the beginning.

ECONOMY: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH JOE NOCERA, BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GQ MAGAZINE ABOUT A HUGE BUYOUT IN HOLLYWOOD. SEAGRAMS, THE HUGE LIQUOR COMPANY, IS EXPECTED TO PURCHASE MCA... MCA OWNS UNIVERSAL PICTURES, UNIVERSAL THEME PARKS AND TWO BIG RECORD COMPANIES.

Professor JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN (CROSS-in). A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969), CROSSAN now teaches biblical studies at DePaul University. CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus' sayings in the Gospels. CROSSAN was last on the show in 1994 to talk about his book, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperCollins). CROSSAN's latest book is Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of The Death of Jesus (Harper San Francisco). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, AUTHOR OF "THE AMERICAN JOURNEY OF ERIC SEVAREID" PUBLISHED BY STEERFORTH PRESS.

THE STORY OF YITZHAK ZOHAR, WHOSE SHOES MAY BE COMING INTO VOGUE ALMOST 40 YEARS AFTER HE INVENTED THEM.

Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning poet Li-Young Lee (LEE OUNG-LEE) about his first book of prose, "The Winged Seed - A Remembrance." Simon & Schuster) Lee's account describes the turbulent and colorful history of is family, starting in the early 1950's when his parents fled Indonesia and ame to the United States.

2: JOHN SACRET(SAY-kret) YOUNG, producer of "VR.5." "VR.5" is the newest show to hit the Fox TV lineup. The show's plot is about Sydney Bloom (Lori Singer), who accidentally discovers she can enter any landscape or time of her choosing through her computer. Once into the new world Bloom is unable to control the events that take place or the actions of those she brings with her. Young also produced the TV show "China Beach."

FROM LONDON, NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDFARB REPORTS ON BRITISH AUTHOR MARTIN AMIS' NEW NOVEL CALLED "THE INFORMATION," WHICH LOOKS AT THE LIFE AND BUSINESS OF FICTION.

THIS WEEK, CHILE'S SUPREME COURT UPHELD THE CONVICTIONS AND PRISON TERMS OF THE TWO CHILEAN SECRET POLICE OFFICIALS WHO ENGINEERED THE CAR BOMBING ASSASINATION OF ORLANDO LETELIER (leh-TEL-e-er), AN OPPONENT OF CHILE'S FORMER MIITARY GOVERNMENT, IN 1976 ON THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.'S EMBASSY ROW. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ISABEL LETELIER, WIDOW OF ORLANDO LETELIER, IN SANTIAGO, CHILE.

We were curious about all the programs the House Republicans proposed be cut from the federal budget, so we read from the list of nearly 300 programs, agencies and departments.