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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH IVANA KUHAR (eeVON-uh KOO-har), CHIEF OF THE CROATIAN SERVICE AT THE VOICE OF AMERICA, ABOUT THE VOA'S NEWLY LAUNCHED HOTLINE TO HELP REFUGEES FIND THEIR LOVED ONES IN THE WAR-RAVAGED BALKANS.

NPR'S CHERYL DEVALL REPORTS ON CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN MEL REYNOLDS' CONVICTION THIS WEEK ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE DERIVING FROM HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AN UNDERAGE YOUNG WOMAN, AND HOW THIS WILL AFFECT HIS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH HOWARD LIEB, WHO PUT TOGETHER "THE AMERICAN COMEDY BOX SET - 1915-1994" ON RHINO RECORDS (R2-71617), A COMPILATION OF SOME OF THIS CENTURY'S GREAT RECORDED COMEDY.

SCOTT SIMON COMMENTS ON HOW 200 CONGRESSPEOPLE, WHO USUALLY ARE BIG ON DEFICIT REDUCTION, ASKED THE BI-PARTISAN COMMISSION ON THE FATE OF U.S MILITARY BASES TO SPARE MILITARY INSTALLATION IN THEIR STATES.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND RON RAPOPORT, WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR, TALK ABOUT THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF FINAL WHICH BEGINS TONIGHT.

ON THIS DAY IN 1979, PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS "MALAISE" SPEECH. TODAY, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH HENDRIK HERTZBERG, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, WHO WAS MR. CARTER'S PRINCIPAL SPEECHWRITER IN 1979 AND DRAFTED THAT SPEECH AND WHO NOW CONFIRMS A MISQUOTATION.

SARAJEVO: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE O'CONNOR IN SARAJEVO ABOUT THE LATEST BOSNIAN SERB ATTACKS ON U.N. "SAFE" AREAS.

SIMON/PLANT: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH TIMOTHY WALKER, DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND WHERE, A RARE TROPICAL PLANT RECENTLY BLOOMED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.

Michael talks with Frank Vardanega about today's Wimbledon mens singles championship between American Pete Sampras, and Boris Becker from Germany. After losing the first set, Sampras rallied to take the next three sets...to make this his third straight Wimbledon title.