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NPR's Mara Liasson reports on President Clinton's most recent selections to fill Cabinet posts: William Daley for Secretary of Commerce and Bill Richardson for United Nations Ambassador. President Clinton has also asked Janet Reno to remain as Attorney General.

Weekend Edition's Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr speaks with Frank Gaffney, director for the Center for Security Policy, and Spurgeon Keeney, President of the Arms Control Association, about today's nuclear threat.

about what to expect from President Clinton's news conference today, his second since winning reelection. He is likely to announce replacements for departing secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Housing & Urban Development and for his economic team. The President also may indicate whether Janet Reno will stay on as Attorney General.

-- enough to kill 15,000 people -- this time in a bottle buried beside a railroad track. It was hidden by a member of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult that carried out the Tokyo subway gas attack.

Noah talks with Bart Hopkin about his CD and book set entitled "Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones", devoted to experimental musical instruments. Some sounds are generated with readily available objects - like flowerpots and junk metal; others are more complex inventions. Hopkin takes us on a tour of some of the wonderful and surprising sounds that are included on the CD.

Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport talks about the low scoring in the National Basketball Association.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the United Nations Security Council today broke a deadlock and selected Kofi Annan (KO-fee ah-NAHN) of Ghana to be the next U-N secretary general. Annan will succeed Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was blocked from a second term by the United States. For the past several days France had objected to Annan, but Paris joined the rest of the Security Council today in backing the Ghanaian, who currently is head of UN peacekeeping operations.

Rbert talks to Barton Gellman, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post , about the decline in popularity of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In the six months since Netanyahu took office, there have been events that led to questions about Netanyahu's effectiveness...such as the violent response to the Israeli government's opening of a tourist tunnel and the inability of the government to negotiate a plan for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. At home and abroad, confidence in Netanyahu's effectiveness as a leader has waned.

in force for the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit which starts on Saturday.

Researchers have found the region that is likely to contain a gene that's responsible for prostate cancer, the most common cancer among men. While they haven't isolated the gene itself, knowing its location will enable researchers to develop a genetic test for the disease, and should lead in short order to identifying the gene itself. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.