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Interview with TENDZIN CHOEGYAL continued.

Poet MARK DOTY's newest book of poems called Atlantis reflects back on the life and death of his longtime lover who died of AIDS last year. His last collection, My Alexandria (University of Illinois Press). won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle award.

WITH BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS ON CAPITOL HILL AT A STANDSTILL, NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS THAT ONE PROPOSAL, WHICH WOULD OVERHAUL THE FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESS, IS GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on the status of Illinois' public mental health system. Despite the dismal rating given to state mental health facilities, state officials maintain that their hospitals offer a clean and healthy environment for patients. There is a debate now materializing between mental health providers as to whether the state should administer care through state hospitals or smaller, community based facilities.

N-P-R's David Molpus reports on the mechanisms and machinations that exist in offices to decide who -- if anyone -- has to work on holidays. It used to be a simple system of seniority. That doesn't work anymore.

MICHAEL DENNENEY is currently an editor at Crown Publishers. He worked with many gay authors in his 17 years at St. Martins Press, where he had his own imprint, Stonewall Editions. Poet DAVID TRINIDAD. His latest book is Answer Song (High Risk). He's edited a forthcoming volume of selected poems by Tim Dugos. It is expected out in Spring of 1996. Dugos died of AIDS in

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH KAY REDFIELD JAMISON, AUTHOR OF "AN UNQUIET MIND: A MEMOIR OF MOODS AND MADNESS." JAMISON IS A PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. THE BOOK IS ABOUT HER OWN STRUGGLE WITH MANIC-DEPRESSION. 13:00 (Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New

TODAY MARKS THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST IMPLANTATION IN A HUMAN OF AN ARTIFICIAL HEART. DR. BARNEY CLARK LIVED FOR 112 DAYS AFTER THE OPERATION. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH DR. JOHN WATSON OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ABOUT THE ADVANCES IN THIS TECHNOLOGY OVER THE LAST 13 YEARS.

ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALKS ABOUT THE MOVIE "MONEY TRAIN" AND THE RECENT ATTACKS ON NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY TELLERS. THE ATTACKS RESEMBLE AN INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED IN THE FILM.

WEEKEND EDITION RE-RUNS ITS FINAL STORY CELEBRATING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHOW. THIS STORY WAS REPORTED FROM SARAJEVO BY SCOTT SIMON IN 1993 AND TELLS HOW PEOPLE IN THAT WAR TORN CITY, WHEN FACED WITH VERY LITTLE FOR THEMSELVES, MANAGED TO KEEP THEIR PETS ALIVE, AS WELL.