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NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Phoenix, Arizona, where the National Rifle Association is continuing its annual meeting. Today, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre sought to distance his organization from the militias and paramilitary groups we've been hearing so much about since the Oklahoma City bombing.

SIMON/HOSPITAL: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MONROE PATERSON, PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR THE DANVILLE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, WHERE UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED HOSPITAL PATIENTS ARE BEING OFFERED THE OPTION TO WORK AT THE HOSPITAL IN ORDER TO RETIRE SOME OF THEIR MEDICAL DEBTS.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER SPEAKS WITH DR. HENRY FOSTER, PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NOMINEE FOR SURGEON GENERAL, ON THE EVE OF HIS SENATE CONFIRMATION HEARING.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH CHIP BERLET, Ber-LAY) AN EXPERT ON MILITIAS AT THE POLITICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ABOUT WHAT MAKES PEOPLE HATE SO FIERCELY. SCOTT ALSO TALKS WITH FRANK JORDAN, MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO, ABOUT WHAT HE IS DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT HAPPENED IN OKLAHOMA CITY DOESN'T HAPPEN IN HIS. KATIE WORSHAM OF H.U.D., WHO ONCE WORKED IN THE BOMBED MURRAH BUILDING, RETURNED THIS WEEK AS ACTING STATE DIRECTOR BECAUSE THE FORMER DIRECTOR WAS KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH HER ABOUT HER FORMER COWORKERS WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE BLAST. AND, SCOTT ALSO SPEAKS WITH JIM McNABB, PASTOR OF THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH, ABOUT A FELLOW PASTOR WHO WAS KILLED WHILE IN THE BUILDING.

Commentator GERALD EARLY remembers one of the most amazing events in professional boxing''s history: when Mohammed Ali knocked out former champion Sonny Liston.

2: Artist DAVID SALLE (pronounced "SALLY"). He's just made his directorial debut with "Search and Destroy," the film version of Howard Korder's play. The film stars Griffin Dunne, Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, John Turturro, and Rosanna Arquette. The executive producer is Martin Scorsese. SALLE's work as an artist prompted this quote by the New York Times, "one of the most thoughtful, gifted, and curious artists of his generation."

Ayoka (eye-YOKE-uh) Medlock tells the story of raising her sister's four children in Richmond California. Medlock is a 19 year old college student and her report comes via Yough Radio, a journalism training program in Berkely, California.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York City that the Justice Department has forced Madison Square Garden and other sports arenas to remove cigarette advertisements from locations where they can be seen by television camera's broadcasting sports events from those arenas. Cigarette advertising on television has been banned for the last 24 years.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Ho Chi Minh City on the rememberances of those Vietnamese who fought in support of the communists. And while many of them celebrated their country's independance in 1975, they still say they're not entirely satisfied with the direction their country's taken in the last 20 years.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports from Oklahoma City on how several businesses near the area of last week's blast have been affected by the tragedy...and their efforts to once-again open their doors to customers.