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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.

Michael and NPR's David Welna update the situation in Mexico, where talks between the government and Zapatista rebels adjourned this week.

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.

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.

NPR's David Welna reports that tomorrow in Haiti there will be make-up local and parliamentary elections. They're being held because there were widespread problems with elections that were held in June.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR ISABEL ALLENDE ABOUT HER NEW MEMOIR "PAULA," PUBLISHED BY HARPER COLLINS.

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.

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

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.

Baseball great Mickey Mantle died early this morning. Daniel talks with 'Sporting News' columnist Dave Kindred about Mantle's incredible skill as an athlete as well as about the tragedy he confronted in his life....a tragedy Mantle cautioned young people to avoid in a press conference shortly before he died.