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NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY EXAMINES JAPANESE RESPONSE TOWARD THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION'S DECISION TO ABANDON PLANS FOR A MAJOR EXHIBIT THIS SPRING ON THE ENOLA GAY AND THE HIROSHIMA BOMBING FIFTY YEARS AGO.

Yesterday, United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor nnounced extensive punitive tariffs on a long list of Chinese goods worth over billion dollars, and the Chinese government has promised to retaliate. Liane ansen speaks with reporter Matt Forney about international reaction to the ack-and-forth trade battle between China and the U.S.

The number of dead is rising on both sides of the ussian-Chechan conflict in and around the city of Grozny (GRAHZ-nee). NPR's rooke Gladstone reports on an anti-war group composed of hundreds of mothers f Russian soldiers who are heading into the war zone to bring their children ome.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH LOUIS (LOO-ey) VALDEZ, MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF NOGALES, ARIZONA, ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S DECISION THIS WEEK TO DISPATCH 62 ADDITIONAL BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO ATTEMPT TO STEM ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS DURING MEXICO'S CURRENT FINANCIAL DISTRESS.

SCOTT TALKS WITH ROBERT SAMUELSON, ECONOMIC COLUMNIST WITH NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE AND THE WASHINGTON POST, ABOUT THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT, PASSED THIS WEEK BY THE HOUSE, AND WHY MANY POLITICIANS LIKE IT, BUT AN EQUALLY LARGE NUMBER OF ANALYSTS WHO DON'T HAVE TO FACE VOTERS DON'T.

FLOODING: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S ANDY BOWERS IN DRUTEN (DROO-ten) IN THE NETHERLANDS, WHERE PEOPLE ARE RETURNING HOME AFTER THE WORST FLOODING IN 40 YEARS.

Daniels talks with Russell Freedman, author of "Kids at Work, Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor". (Clarion

David Baron of member station W-B-U-R in Boston reports on a woman who has spent her life in and around doctors. Now she's become a patient and is battling cancer. She is hoping to pass on her first hand experiences to other doctors.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead visits Kobe in Japan after a day's rain has further hampered efforts to rescue people trapped by Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Magistead reports that the only foreign assistance the Japanese government has accepted are Swiss army dogs which are trained to resuce people trapped by avalanches and earthquakes, but these dogs are not finding their task easy.

Craig speaks with girl scouts attending today's 85th Anniversary sing along on the mall in Washington, DC. More than 50-thousand girl scouts from half a dozen staates gathered to celebrate scouting.