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in - In Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where Jacki grew up, the Kiltie Drive-In has been a fixture for about 50 years. One of Jacki's classmates from high school now runs it... Jacki checks in with him and remembers the double hamburgers they used to order.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE SUCCESS, THIS YEAR, OF BASEBALL'S CLEVELAND INDIANS. THE PERENNIAL LOSERS CURRENTLY HAVE THE BEST RECORD IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES.

THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES IN BOSNIA, AND SCOTT SIMON QUESTIONS WHETHER WE CARE ENOUGH.

SIMON/ORANGE CUCUMBER: A CUCUMBER, NEW TO THIS COUNTRY, ORANGE WHEN CUT OPEN AND HIGH IN BETA CAROTENE, IS NOW GROWING VERY WELL AT THE USDA'S VEGETABLE CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, AND SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PHILLIPP SIMON, A RESEARCH GENETICIST IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT.

Jacki talks to NPR's Davis Welna about today's municipal and legislative elections in Haiti. It was the first vote in Haiti since the U.S. military intervened there last September.

Micahel talks with NPR's Anne Garrels about the vote of confidence by the Russian Parliament for President Boris Yeltsin today. The last time Yeltsin faced the Russian Parliament like this, tanks ended up on the streets of Moscow. This time the vote was over Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis.

THIS WEEKEND, THE NEW YORK EDITION OF NEWSDAY CLOSES DOWN TOMORROW...ANOTHER VICTIM OF NEW YORK'S NEWSPAPER WARS. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE REPORTS.

FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE CUBAN BAND LOS VAN VAN (lohs VAHN vahn) HAS PERFORMED SONGS THAT SLYLY CRITICIZE THE PITFALLS OF EVERYDAY CUBAN LIFE, WHILE CELEBRATING THAT CULTURE'S EXUBERANCE WITH A RHYTHM THAT IS IRRESISTABLE. THE BAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ON THE ISLAND BECAUSE THE MUSICIANS ARE SINGING ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO COME TO HEAR THEM. NPR'S JOHN BURNETT VISITED CUBA AND TALKED TO SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF LOS VAN VAN...AND SOME OF THEIR FANS.