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SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S MARA LIASSON ABOUT THE LATEST IN THE BUDGET BATTLE ON THE HILL.

From member station K-Q-E-D in San Francisco, Ancel Martinez reports what luxury car dealers are doing to try to stave off the economic hit of a one hundred percent tariff that might go into effect if the U.S. and Japan can't solve their trade dispute by the end of June.

Jacki talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the life of Supereme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger, who died this morning in Washington, D.C. was Chief Justice of the Court for 17 years until he retired in 1986.

We visit a Suzuki music camp at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

WITH THE SUPREME COURT HAVING JUST CONCLUDED ITS TERM, NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTEMBERG BRINGS US THIS ANALYSIS.

This past week, Marvin Kamras died. Though most people have never heard of Kamras, they have unwittingly benefitted from his work in the area of magnetic tape recording. Michael talks with audio and video inventor Ray Dolby about Kamras's contributions.

SIMON/BELL: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SCULPTOR BRUCE HASSON WHOSE BELL, MADE FROM CONFISCATED FIREARMS, WILL BE RUNG AS PART OF THE FESTIVITIES COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER WHICH WAS SIGNED IN SAN FRANCISCO. THE BELL IS ON EXHIBIT AT THE WAR MEMORIAL VETERANS BUILDING THERE.

NPR'S JIM ZAROLLI REPORTS ON YESTERDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT BY PHILLIP MORRIS THAT IT IS RECALLING MOST OF ITS MOST POPULAR BRANDS OF CIGARETTS BECAUSE SOME OF THE CIGARETTE FILTERS MAY BE CONTAMINATED BY A SUBSTANCE THAT COULD CAUSE EYE AND THROAT IRRITATION AND DIZZINESS.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on frantic consultations going on in Europe and at the United Nations as the world community tries to figure out how to respond to the latest developments in Bosnia. France has been as focus of this diplomatic activity. France has more peacekeepers in Bosnian than any other Western nation and has suffered the most casualties.

Daniel talks with Paul Kammenar (KAM-ehn-ahr)of the Washington Legal Foundation...and George Kendall of the N-A-A-C-P Legal Defense Fund. They discuss a bill passed by the Senate last week that would reduce the federal appeals process and the effect this may have on those convicted in capital cases.