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NPR's John McChesney reports on wildfire, an automated phone system which unlike voicemail will be able to find you anywhere in the country.

Liane Hansen speaks with Dino Brugioni, former senior officer t the Central Intelligence Agency's National Photographic Interpretation Center n Washington, D.C. The clandestine photo-lab that once handled the analysis of trategic satellite imagery was located on the top four floors of a seemingly rdinary car dealership in a nondescript D.C. neighborhood. Brugioni, who also uthored the 1990 book, "Eyeball to Eyeball - The Inside Story of the Cuban issle Crisis," (Random House) took host Liane Hansen on a walking tour around he structure that, at one time, held some of the most top-secret security nformation in American history.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on how much the O.J. Simpson trial is costing. No one knows how long the trial will take, but cost estimates now are about 700-thousand dollars a month.

On this the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Daniel talks to Frank Snepp, an analyst for the CIA in Viet Nam about the final hours of the American pullout from that city.

Seventy-two year old writer William Gaddis recently received is second National Book Award for the satirical novel, "A Frolic of His Own," n absurd take on the American legal system. Rebekah Presson profiles this elebrated, but often reclusive, American author.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR EDWARD SIRATA, WHO IS CURRENTLY IN SARAJEVO. TODAY, BOSNIA'S MUSLIM PRESIDENT IS EXPECTED TO RETURN THE HAGGADAH, A PRICELESS MEDIEVAL PASSOVER BOOK AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPTS IN JEWISH HISTORY, BACK TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NEW YORK CITY HISTORIAN CHRISTOPHER GRA ABOUT THE UNSOLVED BOMBING THAT OCCURRED ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1920 IN THE WALL STREET AREA OF LOWER MANHATTAN THAT, UP UNTIL THE DEADLY BOMBING THIS WEEK IN OKLAHOMA CITY, HAD BEEN CONSIDERED THE DEADLIEST SINGLE ATTACK IN THE UNITED STATES.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on several paramillitary groups who may have had a connection with the bombing in Oklahoma City. He reports on their motivations and what kind of people join these groups as well as how they organize.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on a proposal in New York City to create separate schools for children who've been caught bringing weapons to class. The schools would be modelled after the Wildcat Academy, an alternative school in New York for troubled students.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & SHAY STEVENS