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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.

Actor Richard Bauer reads excerpts from John Hersey's "Hiroshima," an account of six survivors of the atomic bombing of that city. "Hiroshima" was originally an entire issue of THE NEW YORKER magazine (August 1, 1946) and was later published in book form.

Daniel talks with journalist Gersh Kuntzman who has investigated the origins of what is now an international gesture....the HIGH 5.

A recent Newsweek poll suggests that the majority of Americans elieve we should not send troops to Bosnia. Liane Hansen speaks with historian nd author Ronald Steel about the contraints that domestic politics places on oreign policy.

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.

During the Vietnam War, a westerner named Lady Borton worked in he war-torn region with the Quaker Service Rehabilitation Center. Following he end of the conflict, she was granted access to villages in Northern Vietnam here other Westerners were not so readily permitted to enter. Host Jacki Lyden peaks with Lady Borton, who comes to us by phone from Hanoi, about the local eaction to President Clinton's decision to normalize relations between the nited States and Vietnam.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: NORA RAUM & MICHAEL LELAND

The dropping of the atomic bomb on the apanese city of Hiroshima ushered in the dawn of the nuclear age. From iroshima, NPR reporter Julie McCarthy covers the 50th anniversary memorial eremony being held in Peace Park, which was built near ground zero in memory of he victims of the destructive bomb that ended the second World War.

NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS ON THE THE DEBATE NOW GOING ON IN JAPAN ON WHETHER PARLIAMENT OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE NATION'S ROLE IN WORLD WAR II.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the presidential ecision to employ U.S. military intervention throughout modern American istory.