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For the record, we hear how President Harry Truman explained his decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima to the American people. These are excerpts from a speech Truman made on August 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima was destroyed.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON WHAT THE RUSSIANS ARE DOING IN CHECHENYA, FROM A TOWN WHERE PEACE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COME -- BUT WHERE THIS WEEK'S EVENTS PROVE IT HASN'T.

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SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK THAT ILLUSTRATE WHAT IS GOOD AND BAD ABOUT THE 1995 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON.

Daniel talks with Peter Matthews, editor of the Guinness Book of World Records, about some of this year's more 'interesting' submissions. This fall, the internationally acclaimed tome will celebrate its 40th edition. And though the book is filled with records of all kinds from architecture to sports - those that capture the greatest attention are the human records, many of which are held by people from India - such as the world's longest fingernails, the longest hair, the shortest man ... Is it human nature at it's worst, or it's best? Matthews explains.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Zagreb, Croatia about the latest developments in Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs are alleging that a number of civilians died when UN artillery fire hit a hospital near Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO airstrikes against Serb positions continued.

Novelist KAYE GIBBONS. She's the author of several acclaimed novels: Ellen Foster and Charms for the Easy Life. One reviewer says "Gibbon's brilliance lies in examining with unsentimental tenderness a family poised on the brink of disaster." GIBBONS has a new novel, Sights Unseen (Putnam) about a girl's life with her manic-depressive mother. GIBBONS herself has the illness, and she'll talk with Terry about that.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH NORMAN ORNSTEIN, RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, AND THOMAS MANN, SENIOR FELLOW AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION, ABOUT THE MEDICARE AND WELFARE BILLS, BOTH OF WHICH WERE DEBATED IN CONGRESS THIS WEEK.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FACE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, AND ON QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE INDUSTRY BACKS ITS CLAIMS.

SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SHORTSTOP CAL RIPKEN OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WHO, THIS WEEK, BROKE LOU GERHIG'S MONUMENTAL RECORD OF 2,130 CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED THAT HAD STOOD SINCE 1939.