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PATRICK COX OF MEMBER STATION WBUR IN BOSTON REPORTS THAT OFFICIALS AT THE CEDAR JUNCTION PRISON IN WALPOLE, MASSASHUSETTS, ARE PREPARING TO LIFT A LOCKDOWN THAT'S BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED THAT LIFTING THE LOCKDOWN MAY LEAD TO VIOLENCE, AND THEY ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER THE GET-TOUGH POLICY IN THAT STATE'S PRISONS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.

Two days ago, baseball got faster. Major league owners instituted new rules to speed up the game. Jon Miller, the broadcasting voice of the Baltimore Orioles, talks with Danny about the speedup.

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.

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.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Hiroshima on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. The city marked the occasion with a solemn ceremony. And protests against a French decision to resume nuclear testing also took place.

JUST WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR IN THE WAR IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA? THE IMAGES OF THE SERBS BEING FORCED OUT OF THE KRAJINA HAVE FORCED A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THIS ONGOING CONFLICT. NPR'S TREVOR ROWE REPORTS FROM NEW YORK.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the issue of abortion occupied the Senate's attention today in a rare Saturday session. At issue: whether to prevent federal employees from using their health insurance to pay for abortions.

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.

Daniel talks to Neil Munro, a reporter for Washington Techonology newspaper and Robert Ayers, chief of the Pentagon's defense information systems agency's information warfare divison, about the possibility of an infowar... an attack on the communications systems that support the defense of the United States. Enemy countries or terrorists could sabotage the civillian phone, air traffic control, and power systems on which the militray depends by linking up with international computer networks like the Internet.

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.