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Barbara visits a local hospital, and talks to men who are about to become fathers for the first time. She talks to them as they wait for their wives to have their babies in the Birthing Center at Columbia Hospital for Women, in Washington DC.

Linda talks with Andy Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about the part Catholic voters will play in this year's presidential election. Traditionally, as a block, Catholics have voted as Democrats, but the abortion issue is attracting Catholics to the Republican party.

Robert talks to Aleksa Djilas, Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, about the apparent winner in the Yugoslav election, Vojislav Kostunica. Djilas says Kostunica is not corrupt, has no ties to Milosevic, is educated, a legal scholar and respects the rule of law.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Kristol, editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, and pollster Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the Press and the People, about the Republican National Convention.

David Brower of member station KRWG in New Mexico reports that two of the state's leading training centers for the blind have settled their philosophical differences and are now teaching classes together.

Robert talks with Khalil Shikaki, Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. He joins us from his home in Ramallah, to talk about public opinion of the Camp David summit among Palestinians.

SCOTT PONDERS THE THEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS WEEK'S NEW ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES -- CAN SUCH AN IMMENSE UNIVERSE BE THE PRODUCT OF CHANCE? -- WITH OWEN GINGERICH, PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT THE HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Ray talks with Beth Luman, a statistician with the fetal alcohol syndrome prevention section of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. They discuss a study that indicates the levels of harmful drinking by pregnant women increased fourfold between 1991 and 1995.

Nancy Rigotti, director of the Tobacco Research and Treatment Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Rigotti explains how to determine if retailers are observing the new FDA regulations on selling cigarettes to minors.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and Melor (MELL-or) Sturua (stir-OO-ah), Senior Fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, about Sunday's elections in Russia.