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BOSNIA: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S TOM GJELTEN IN BIHAC ABOUT THE FIRST U.N. AID CONVOYS TO GET THROUGH TO THE ENCLAVE SINCE LAST NOVEMBER. THE SO-CALLED U.N. SAFE ZONE HAS BEEN UNDER SEIGE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS; LAST WEEK THE CROATIAN ARMY ROUTED THE KRAJINA SERBS, OPENING A PATH FOR THE U.N. AID TRUCKS.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Danny talks to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, about the latest refugee crisis resulting from the war in the former Yugoslavia. Tens of thousands of Serb refugees are on the run, fleeing from Krajina after the Croatian army invaded that area. Krajina had been held by rebel Serbs. Now most of the area is back in Croatian hands.

Ken Dermata reports from Bogota on the arrest of Manuel Rodriguez Ortega, the reported leader of the Cali drug cartel. He is the sixth leader of a drug cartel to be arrested since June. Rodriguez has been linked to drug traffiking for more than 25 years but was formally charged for the first time in Columbia in 1994.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHORS ROBERT GOLDBERG, A TELEVISION CRITIC OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND GERALD JAY GOLDBERG, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH AND UCLA, A FATHER-SON TEAM, ABOUT THEIR NEW BOOK "CITIZEN TURNER: THE WILD RISE OF AN AMERICAN TYCOON" PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY...THE SAGA OF TED TURNER AND HIS RISE AS A MAJOR AMERICAN FIGURE.

Daniel talks to Joe Arpaio, sherrif of Maricopa County Arizona, who has a program to arrest parents who are delinquent in their child support payments. Arpaio uses his volunteer posse to track down mothers and fathers who have fallen so far behind in their payments that warrants have been issued for their arrest. They are taken to jail, and their bail is set at the amount of money they owe.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH BELLA ABZUG, FORMER NEW YORK CONGRESSWOMAN AND ONE OF THE LEADERS OF A COALITION OF UN-OFFICIAL, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HEADED FOR THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN SCHEDULED TO CONVENE IN CHINA NEXT MONTH, ABOUT THE PROBLEMS RIDDLING THE GATHERING.

ALTHOUGH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS RUNNING FAIRLY SMOOTHLY NOW, ITS ROCKY BEGINNING HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL. MARK ROBERTS REPORTS FROM DENVER THAT A SMALL AIRPORT IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS ATTEMPTING TO GIVE THE DENVER AIRPORT A RUN FOR ITS COMPETITIVE MONEY AND THAT EVEN DENVER RESIDENTS ARE FINDING THE SMALL AIRPORT MORE APPEALING THAN THEIR OWN.

Daniel talks to Canadian Health Minister Diane Marleau about the Canadian policies to restrict tobacco advertising. The Canadian government requires large health warnings on each package of cigarettes, imposes high taxes on cigarettes, and bans tobacco advertising. Marleau says that results are mixed... tobacco companies try to get around the advertising restrictions, people travel to the U.S. to buy cheaper cigarettes, and studies about the effectivness of the ban in reducing smoking do not show definitively that smoking among young people has declined.

2: Stand up comic ELLEN DEGENERES, the star of the sitcom "Ellen." The show airs on Wednesday nights on ABC. Last year DEGENERES co-hosted the 1994 Emmy awards and received a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female in a New Television series. She now has a new book, My Point. . . And I Do Have One. (Bantam News).