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LIGHTNING: Host Liane Hansen talks with Harold Deal of Greenwood, outh Carolina. Mr. Deal is a participant in the fifth annual "Lightning Strike nd Electric Shock Victims International Convention" being held this weekend in ettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Host Liane Hansen continues her onversation with Sadako Ogata (sah-DA-koh oh-GAH-tah), the United Nations High ommissioner for Refugees. This week they focus their discussion on the recent eturn of more than 1,000 Rwandan refugees. They also consider other current esponsibilites of the UNHCR, which provides assistance for the world's 27 illion refugees.

Mark Urycki (your-ICK-ee) of member station WKSU in Kent, hio, reports on the recent theft of some folio pages removed from a manuscript n the Vatican library. The man suspected of the crime is an art history rofessor who denies the charges.

SCOTT SIMON AND JOURNALIST MARVIN KALB, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

BOSNIA: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S TOM GJELTEN IN BIHAC ABOUT THE FIRST U.N. AID CONVOYS TO GET THROUGH TO THE ENCLAVE SINCE LAST NOVEMBER. THE SO-CALLED U.N. SAFE ZONE HAS BEEN UNDER SEIGE FOR NEARLY THREE YEARS; LAST WEEK THE CROATIAN ARMY ROUTED THE KRAJINA SERBS, OPENING A PATH FOR THE U.N. AID TRUCKS.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR reporter Mike Shuster in agreb about the Croatian military offensive that has successfully reclaimed the ebel Serb's Krajina (krah-YEEN-a) region within only three days. Croatian resident Franjo Tudjman ordered the massive attack on the Serb stronghold of nin (knihn), which has been held by Serb rebels since 1991.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON ROSS PEROT'S THREE-DAY NATIONAL ISSUES CONFERENCE WHICH CONTINUES IN DALLAS TODAY.

IN ITALY, THREE MEN WITH AIDS HAVE BEEN ROBBING BANKS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AN ITALIAN LAW THAT PROHIBITS PEOPLE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF A TERMINAL ILLNESS FROM BEING IMPRISONED. HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH PETER SHADBOLT, A REPORTER FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL IN ROME.

NPR's David Welna reports that tomorrow in Haiti there will be make-up local and parliamentary elections. They're being held because there were widespread problems with elections that were held in June.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.