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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.

1) FRANK SALOMON, a member of the Phoenix Fire Department's Urban Search and Rescue Unit, which is one its way to Oklahoma City to help with the rescue efforts there. 2) Architecture and Design Critic THOMAS HINE. HINE has written a new book, The Total Package: The Evolution and Secret Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Tubes (Little, Brown Co.) HINE explores the affect packages have on consumer emotions and purchases. He unveils how packaging, from Tide's orange box to Lifesaver's sleek cylinder plays on our sensibilities in making brand choices.

NANCY POSTERO VISITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF BAHIA (bah-EE-ah) AND PROFILES THE "DR. RUTH" OF BRAZIL, A MAN WHO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT SEX AND CONTRACEPTION IN THAT CATHOLIC COUNTRY.

Scholars, social critics, and futurists ALAN and HEIDI TOFFLER, authors of Future Shock (1970). They've gotten a lot of publicity lately, because of their association with Newt Gingrich. GINGRICH sought them out 20 years ago because he was fascinated by their ideas about the "intersection of history and the future." One of the books that GINGRICH has suggested that every member of congress read, is the TOFFLERS' newest. It's Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave. (Turner Publishing

SPORTS: WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT IS AT THE MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, AND TALKS WITH HOST SUSAN STAMBERG ABOUT THE PAST AND FUTURE OF GOLF, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH BASEBALL.

Actor PETER FALK (FALL-k). He is best known for his role as a rumpled L.A. detective in the TV series "Columbo," where he garnered three Emmy awards. He currently stars in the recently released film "Roommates," detailing the relationship between a grandfather and grandson

ROCHELLE & ANTHONY YATES. On July 18, 1988 the YATES' five year old son Marcus was killed in gun crossfire between two drug dealers fighting for turf in a corner store. There were 11 children in the store playing video games, two others were shot but survived, one of them was Marcus' six year old brother. Since the incident the YATES' have become activists against senseless violence; they lecture to high schools, take in foster children who have lost family members to violence, run a day care center and organize community activities to take back neighborhoods.

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. .

Daniel visits the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where development and deforestation have caused a shortage of drinking water. Industrial and commercial development has interfered with natural water patterns, and poor regulation of polluters has exacerbated the problem.

Jacki speaks with NPR's David Welna in Port-au-Prince on the day that the United Nations assumed responsibility for peace and security in Haiti. Yesterday, President Clinton handed over peacekeeping authority to the U.N., six months after 20,000 American troops restored Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Welna says security remains the biggest problem in Haiti, and he says some Haitians are impatient with the pace of reform.