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Suzanne Stevens of member station WFAE reports on the erdict in the Susan Smith murder trial. Yesterday, a jury in Union, South arolina convicted Smith of First-Degree Murder. Smith had confessed to drowning er two sons in a lake. The penalty phase of the trial begins Monday.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in itez, where British troops of the United Nations peacekeeper rapid reaction orce are preparing to move into the hills above Sarajevo. The UN troops hope to tem the seige by Serb rebels of the Bosnian capital city.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT "INDEPENDENT" FILMS.

SIMON/MOTHER TERESA: SCOTT SIMON REFLECTS ON MOTHER TERESA'S CURRENT TRIP TO THE UNITED STATES, WHERE SHE HAS BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT HER WORK AND HER ORDER THE MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY. (MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY - 335 EAST 145TH STREET - BRONX, NY 10451)

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH THEODORE "LOLO" BEAUBRUN, JR. AND HENRY JOSEPH PIERRE, MEMBERS OF HAITI'S BEST-KNOWN BAND BOUKMAN EKSPERYANS (BOOK-man ek-SPEAR-ee-ens), ABOUT MAKING MUSIC UNDER THE OFTEN UNAPPROVING EYES OF HAITI'S COLONELS. (ALL BOUKMAN EKSPERYANS ALBUMS ARE RELEASED ON MANGO RECORDS: 1ST, 1991 - VODOU ADJAE : 2ND, 1992 - KALFOU DANJERE: 3RD AND LATEST - LIBETE (PRAN POU PRAN'1!)/FREEDOM (LET'S TAKE IT!)

SIMON/NEIGHBORS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH ATTORNEY MARK WARDA, AUTHOR OF NEIGHBOR VS. NEIGHBOR: THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF NEIGHBORS IN DISPUTE, PUBLISHED BY SPHINX PUBLISHING IN CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, A BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING 400 TRUE STORIES TAKEN FROM COURT CASES IN EVERY STATE IN THE COUNTRY.

CROATIA: THE THREAT OF A WIDER WAR IN THE NATIONS THAT ONCE WERE PART OF YUGOSLAVIA SEEMS MORE REAL THIS MORNING. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER IN ZAGREB, CROATIA.

Michael visits the Library of Congress here in Washington D.C. On display thru the Fourth of July weekend are the actual drafts of the Decleration of Independance made by thomas Jefferson. It's the first time the actual pieces of paper, corrections and all, have been shown in public. He also talks with History professor Joseph Ellis of Mt. Holyoke College about what Jefferson thought of all the tinkering that happend with HIS version of the Decleration of Independance.

Thirty years ago today, the nation underwent a health care revolution when President Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on the impact Medicare has had on the health of America's elderly.