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NPR'S INA JAFFE REPORTS ON THE TWO-WEEK CROSS COUNTRY TOUR OF MORE THAN 200 WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT KNOW AS "FREEDOM FLIGHT AMERICA," A COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II.

WHILE THE FATE OF TWO FORMER FOLLOWERS OF THE LATE BAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, THE FLAMBOUYANT MYSTIC WHO ATTEMPTED TO CREAT A UTOPIAN COMMUNE IN THE HIGH DESERT OF OREGON FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, HAS BEEN DETERMINED, HAVING BEEN CONVICTED YESTERDAY OF CONSPIRING TO KILL A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IN 1985, THE FUTURE OF THE RAJNEESH FACILITY IS YET UNKNOWN. FROM ANTELOPE, OREGON, LEY GARNETT REPORTS.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE FINAL DAYS OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARING INTO THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN INCIDENT...HAVE THESE HEARINGS REVEALED ANY GREAT SECRETS OR HAVE THEY JUST SHOWN THAT STRONG EMOTIONS STILL SURROUND THE INCIDENT TWO YEARS LATER?

Yesterday President Clinton issued an executive order that established the first uniform standards for U.S. agencies in granting security clearances to employees. Among the directives was an order to end the denial of security clearances because an applicant is gay. Daniel talks to Frank Kameny, who was denied government security clearances in the 1950s and 60s and was the first person to fight a discharge from a federal civil service job because of his homosexuality.

Michael talks with Judge Hiller Zobel - who sits on the Massachusetts Superior Court - about the history of jury trials. Zobel says that even though juries have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent high profile trials, he believes a jury system is still the best available. And that any alternative that would grant more power to judges to decide cases would not be in the best interest of justice.

THIS WEEKEND, THE NEW YORK EDITION OF NEWSDAY CLOSES DOWN TOMORROW...ANOTHER VICTIM OF NEW YORK'S NEWSPAPER WARS. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE REPORTS.

The Pope was in New York today. We hear a bit of tape from his mass this morning in Central Park, and then Daniel talks with two students and a professor at Catholic University about their feelings concerning the significance and relevance of the Pope and his visit to America

WEEKEND EDITION PRESENTS THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF JULIUS KNIPL, REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER