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SIMON/ANCHOVIES: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DAVID GARRISON, A BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ, ABOUT HIS THEORY ABOUT A STRANGE BIRD ATTACK THAT OCCURRED IN TOWNS AROUND THE MONTEREY BAY IN 1961 AND INSPIRED ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'THE BIRDS'.

Surgeon SUSAN LOVE. She is the founding member of the Breast Cancer Coalition. LOVE is also the founding director of the UCLA Breast Cancer, which is one of the world's leading breast treatment facilities. Her book Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (Addison Wesley) is said to be one of the most important books in women's health in the last decade. A new updated second edition has just been published.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

CROATIA: THE THREAT OF A WIDER WAR IN THE NATIONS THAT ONCE WERE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA SEEMS MORE REAL THIS MORNING. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER IN ZAGREB, CROATIA.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT "INDEPENDENT" FILMS.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has unexpectedly freed two Americans who had been jailed in Iraq. The men, William Barloon and David Daliberti, were arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison after they entered Iraq from Kuwait by mistake last March. The Americans were freed after US Congressman Bill Richardson (of New Mexico) met with Saddam.

Daniel talks with Gary Millhollin (mil-HAHL-in) director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Today is the 50th anniversary of first atomic test. Millhollin says there is a greater chance that nuclear weapons would be used today than at any time during the Cold War.

Critic Bob Mondello chronicles the influence that the atomic bomb has had on Hollywood movies. Some movies plots have shown the drama of narrowly-averting nuclear war, others have depicted the aftereffects of a bomb, and yet others have poked fun at the cold war.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SENATOR JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ), MEMBER OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTATIVE LEE HAMILTON (D-IN), RANKING MEMBER OF THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, ABOUT THE DIVISIONS OVER U.S. POLICY IN BOSNIA.

For the holiday weekend, some statistics for the road.