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2: Interview with JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN continues.

JONATHAN MILLER REPORTS ON CONGRESSIONAL AND LOCAL ELECTIONS BEING HELD NEXT WEEK IN THE PHILIPPINES, INCLUDING THE CANDIDACY OF FERDINAND MARCOS, JR., KNOWN THERE AS "BONG-BONG."

Film critic STEVEN SCHIFF reviews the new film "Don Juan de Marco" starring Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaway.

Daniel spends an afternoon watching the national sport of the Island of Puerto Rico...Cock Fighting. Daniel discusses the official rules of combat, judging, and the methods of training to get the roosters in shape for fighting. He even does a play by play.

TONY VARONE remembers V.E. DAY 50 years ago today. He served in the 9th Infantry Division which fought in Europe. He now is Commander of VFW POST in Long Island, New York. DONALD PEARCE fought in Europe in the Canadian Army. Peace kept a diary during his tour of duty. His 1965 book Journal Of A War: North-west Europe 1944-1945 chronicles the battles fought in Belgian and the Netherlands.

FROM MEMBER STATION WNYC, BETH FERTIG REPORTS THAT SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS ARE THREATENING TO STRIKE NEXT WEEK IN NEW YORK CITY, STRANDING 150 THOUSAND STUDENTS.

SIMON/FISH: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BOSTON UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LES KAUFMAN, ABOUT HIS PLAN TO FUND HIS RESEARCH AND SAVE ENDAGERED FISH. FOR FIFTY-THOUSAND DOLLARS, DOZENS OF LUCKY DONORS WILL BE ABLE TO NAME A SPECIES OF FISH IN LAKE VICTORIA IN EASTERN AFRICA.

Daniel talks with brain surgeon Richard Fraser of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 130 years ago Friday. Fraser maintains that the bullet John Wilkes Booth fired would have disabled the president but need not have killed him. Shoddy medical care, even by nineteenth century standards, served only to worsen the dire situation.

Stand-up comic JIMMY TINGLE. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/1/90)Filmmaker PAUL MAZURSKY. Mazursky's movies include "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice," "Enemies: A Love Story," "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" and "Scenes From a Mall." (REBROADCAST FROM 2/18/91)Author ROBB FORMAN DEW. In her novels--Dale Loves Sophie to Death (Harper Perennial) and Fortunate Lives (Harper Perennial) - DEW explored the ambiguities and intricacies of families. DEW made her non-fiction debut with a memoir about her son's coming out and the family evolution that followed. It's called The Family Heart and it's just been published in paperback (Ballantine). (REBROADCAST FROM 5/12/94)Writer GARY PAULSEN. He is a prolific writer of children's books. He began writing over twenty years ago, when he was coming to terms with his alcoholism. In 1985, PAULSON won the Newberry Award for children's fiction with Dogsong. He reads from his memoir Eastern Sun, Western Moon. (REBROADCAST FROM 4/12/93)DOROTHY BEAM-Her son Joe Beam died of AIDS in 1989. He was a writer who was in the process of editing his second anthology of Black gay writing. Dorothy helped finish the work her son started, and it was published in 1992 as Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson Publications). (REBROADCAST FROM 2/

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT VETERAN N.F.L. QUARTERBACK JOE MONTANA, WHO WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT NEXT WEEK.