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2: Poet JANE KENYON, who died Saturday of leukemia. She and her husband, poet DONALD HALL, had both been struggling with cancer for years. Many of their works were inspired by their battles with the disease. Their last book of poems, entitled Constance, is about HALL's surgery and recovery. KENYON's other books are Boat of Quiet Hours and Let Evening Come. A new collection of her poems, called Otherwise is due out in 1996. (Greywolf

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:07 This week's on-air puzzle player lives in Austin, Texas and listens to public adio station K

2: Cartoonist BILL GRIFFITH creator of "Zippy." GRIFFITH traveled to Cuba last fall which became the inspiration for "Cuba Uncovered", a month long series of strips on the Cuban situation. GRIFFITH created "Zippy" over 25 years ago and it is currently syndicated in over 200 newspapers. GRIFFITH is also one of the cartoonists interviewed in the new documentary, "CRUMB."

2: Writer SCOTT PECK and his father Colonel FRED PECK . PECK has written his first book, All American Boy (Scribner) a memoir of his life growing up in an abusive home with his step-father and the rebuilding of his relationship with his father after a fourteen year estrangement. PECK was thrust on the national scene in May 1993 when his Marine Colonel father spoke against gays in the military to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Col. Peck went on to say his oldest son, Scott, was gay, and though he loved him, he should not be able to serve in the military. .

FROM MEMBER STATION WBFO IN BUFFALO, IAN ARONSON REPORTS ON EFFORTS BY THAT CITY'S MAYOR RAISE MUCH NEEDED REVENUE. HE PROPOSES TO CHARGE ON-PROFIT GROUPS WHAT HE CALLS "USER FEES."

On this the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Daniel talks to Frank Snepp, an analyst for the CIA in Viet Nam about the final hours of the American pullout from that city.

A sound montage of a few voices in this past week's news, ncluding Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL.), Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) and Rep. John Dingell D-MI) on term-limits; President Clinton and Haitian President Jean-Bertrand ristide (zhahn behr-TRAHN' ahr-ihs-TEED) from Haiti; Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) nnouncing his G.O.P. Presidential nomination; David Letterman and "Forrest ump" Producer Steve Tisch from the Academy Awards.

Danny talks to Reverend Kelly Clem of Piedmont, Alabama about the Easter service she conducted today amidst the ruins of tiny Goshen Methodist Church where a deadly tornado struck during Palm Sunday services a year ago. Reverend Clem describes coming to terms with sorrow, destruction, and the death of 20 parishoners, including her daughter, Hanna.

Producer Julian Crandall Hollick's second installment of his eries about the pavement dwellers on Apna (AHH-p'nah) Street. "Samina's SAH-mih-nuh) Story," follows the long, torturous route to Bombay of one poor ut determined woman. Samina had to overcome a shiftless husband, the nnecessary death of a child, the constant bulldozing of the hut she built, as ell as the daily search for food in order to provide for herself and her hildren.

SIMON/SAILING: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BUDDY MELGES, A FORMER GOLD MEDAL OLYMPIC SAILOR AND A FORMER AMERICA'S CUP WINNER, ABOUT THE CHEVROLET STADIUM SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS...SAILING RACES HELD IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE BILLION-DOLLAR CHRISTIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY, THAT RANGES FROM TRADITIONAL CHRISTIAN MUSIC TO HI-HOP POP.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Oklahoma City on two parents who's children are still missing after the bomb explosion in Oklahoma City.