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IN ITALY, THREE MEN WITH AIDS HAVE BEEN ROBBING BANKS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AN ITALIAN LAW THAT PROHIBITS PEOPLE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF A TERMINAL ILLNESS FROM BEING IMPRISONED. HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH PETER SHADBOLT, A REPORTER FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL IN ROME.

NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS FROM PORT AU PRINCE ON HAITI'S CONTINUING DIFFICULTIES AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE JUDICIARY BRANCH OF PARLIAMENT WHICH, UNTIL THIS WEEK, HAD BEEN ALL BUT NON-EXISTENT.

Daniel speaks with George Hawatmeh, editor of the Jordan Times newspaper, about a press conference held today by General Hussein Kamel al-Majid, former right hand man to Saddam Hussein, who defected this week to Jordan. Hussein Kamel today called for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, who is his father-in-law.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SHARES SOME THOUGHTS ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WORLD WAR II AND THE FAMOUS LIFE MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SAILOR AND THE NURSE KISSING IN TIMES SQUARE ON AUGUST 14TH, 1945. WE NOW KNOW WHO THEY WERE.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Daniel talks with Jovan Zamatitsa, adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karajich, from Pale, capital of the self-declared Bosnian Serb republic. Zamatitsa denies Bosnian Serb troops have raped or murdered refugees from Srebrenica, and he says Muslims from that town left voluntarily.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH AUTHOR DELIA EPHRON (EFF-ron) ABOUT HER FIRST NOVEL "HANGING UP," PUBLISHED BY THE PUTNUM PUBLISHING GROUP.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH JOURNALIST DEAN MILLER IN IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, ABOUT THE DEMOTION YESTERDAY OF THE FBI'S NUMBER 2 OFFICIAL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR LARRY POTTS. MR. POTTS SUPERVISED THE 1992 SIEGE IN RUBY RIDGE, IDAHO, WHERE THE UNARMED WIFE AND 14-YEAR-OLD SON OF A WHITE SUPREMACIST WERE KILLED. HE ALSO SUPERVISED THE 1993 SIEGE OF THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN COMPOUND IN WACO, TEXAS.

NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI REPORTS FROM BELGRADE ON THE LATEST IN THE ON-GOING CONFLICT IN BOSNIA.

Mike O'Connor reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian Serb forces have surrounded the so-called safe haven of Zhepa and can take it any time. The Serbs earlier this week took another safe area, the village of Srebrenica.