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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.

On this mother's day, we share this story by writer Bev Donofrio. She recalls a mother's day holiday in the 1970's, when she and some women friends went out for a picnic and baseball game with their kids. The moral: it's tough to be a mom...but it has it's good sides too.

Lt. Gen. HAROLD MOORE and U.S. News and World Report Senior Writer JOSEPH GALLOWAY. On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and GALLOWAY, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. MOORE and GALLOWAY wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young (Random House). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/11/92)Journalist and best-selling author DAVID HALBERSTAM. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting from Vietnam. He was one of the first American reporters to contradict the government's optimistic picture of the war. He was attacked by officials of South Vietnam and the United States for negativism and inaccuracy in his reporting. In 1967 HALBERSTAM retired from newspaper reporting. His books since then include The Best and Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Fifties, and others. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/3/93)Writer MICHAEL HERR. He wrote what's considered the definitive Vietnam book, Dispatches. The movie "Apocalypse Now" is loosely based on his writings. (REBROADCAST FROM 5/

2: The stars of the Emmy Award winning TV series "Cagney & Lacey" SHARON GLESS (Christine Cagney) and TYNE DALY (Mary Beth Lacy). The two play New York City Police detectives. The series aired on CBS from 1982 to 1988. This Tuesday the two will be reunited in the two-hour TV movie "Cagney & Lacey: Together Again." The movie is the second two-hour episode since the series ended. "C&G" was the first TV crime show in which the two central characters were female. The TV series won 14 Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ROBERT REMINI, EMERITUS PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, ABOUT A DOCUMENT THAT PROVES THAT OUR SEVENTH PRESIDENT, ANDREW JACKSON, AS A YOUNG BUSINESSMAN LIVING IN SPANISH HELD TERRITORY, ONCE SIGNED AN OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE KING OF SPAIN.

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.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BILL MOYERS ABOUT HIS SPECIAL PROGRAM NEXT WEEK ON PUBLIC TELEVISION TITLED "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?" ITS FOCUS IS ON VIOLENCE AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE DOING TO CURB IT.

From the Beach Boys, BRIAN WILSON. We feature a segment from a 1988 interview with WILSON. This ties in with the next interview:Editor in Chief of Billboard Magazine TIMOTHY WHITE. He has written a new book that traces the evolution of the "myth" of Southern California. WHITE uses the history of the Wilson family and it's migration to California in the 1920s. The Wilson family is that of Brian Wilson, one of the Beach Boys, the band the helped put Southern California on the map as the place of sun and fun. WHITE's new book is "The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience" (Henry

ingust GEOFFREY NUNBERG reflects on the adverb.