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THE EIGHT-DAY SUMMIT MEETING HELD BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN ENDED AT THE SMALL CRIMEAN RESORT TOWN OF YALTA 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. NPR'S ANDY BOWERS PREPARED THIS REPORT.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews the new cd by the jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood. It''s called "Friday Afternoon in the Universe" (Gramma Vision).

As we heard last week, Keith Jarrett is best known for his olo piano improvisations. Today, Liane Hansen continues her conversation with he jazz musician, who also has worked in jazz trios since the 1980's, and is a rolific composer. His album, "The Koln Concert" (Cologne, Germany - ECM, 1064 5) was recorded 20 years ago this month, and has sold almost 3 million copies. oday, we hear Jarrett's views on the art of improvisation.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.

For many homeless people who contract HIV, it's likely their last days will be in a homeless shelter or a hospital surrounded by strangers. But, in Washington D.C. - there exists an alternative for a few men who are ready and willing to take it...Joseph's House. This community of formerly homeless men with AIDS learn to live together AND to die together here as a family - something that many of them haven't had for most of their lives. Daniel Zwerdling takes us for a visit to Joseph's House.

Journalist DENNIS COVINGTON. He's written a new book about the practice of snake handling in a Southern Appalachian church. Practitioners use snake handling as a kind of "annointing", in a belief that the Holy Spirit comes down to protect them from fear and danger in handling the poisonous snakes. COVINGTON came to write the book as a journalistic endeavor and it became an exploration of his own faith. He himself handled the snakes. COVINGTON's new book is "Salvation on Sand Mountain," (Addison-Wesley).

SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE 1986 BLAST AT THE THEN-SOVIET UNION'S CHERNOBYL ATOMIC STATION--NOW THOUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE DIRE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

SIMON/MITCHELL: WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REMEMBERS FILM ACTOR WOODY STRODE, WHO DIED LAST WEEKEND AT THE AGE OF 80.

SCOTT TALKS WITH 89-YEAR-OLD NORMAN VAUGHAN, JUST RETURNED FROM CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN THAT BEARS HIS NAME IN ANTARCTICA. VAUGHAN WAS PART OF ADMIRAL BYRD'S EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE IN 1928, AND HAD ALWAYS VOWED TO RETURN TO THE MOUNTAIN NAMED AFTER HIM.