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SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Danny talks to Hiroko Harris, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing. She was 13 when the bomb fell. She later came to the US for medical treatment, and evenutally married a Baltimore cab driver. She now lives in a small town outside Hiroshima.

Ken Dermata reports from Bogota on the arrest of Manuel Rodriguez Ortega, the reported leader of the Cali drug cartel. He is the sixth leader of a drug cartel to be arrested since June. Rodriguez has been linked to drug traffiking for more than 25 years but was formally charged for the first time in Columbia in 1994.

Daniel talks to Neil Munro, a reporter for Washington Techonology newspaper and Robert Ayers, chief of the Pentagon's defense information systems agency's information warfare divison, about the possibility of an infowar... an attack on the communications systems that support the defense of the United States. Enemy countries or terrorists could sabotage the civillian phone, air traffic control, and power systems on which the militray depends by linking up with international computer networks like the Internet.

PATRICK COX OF MEMBER STATION WBUR IN BOSTON REPORTS THAT OFFICIALS AT THE CEDAR JUNCTION PRISON IN WALPOLE, MASSASHUSETTS, ARE PREPARING TO LIFT A LOCKDOWN THAT'S BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED THAT LIFTING THE LOCKDOWN MAY LEAD TO VIOLENCE, AND THEY ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER THE GET-TOUGH POLICY IN THAT STATE'S PRISONS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.

Essayist Eugene Cha reflects on his first visit as an adult o his parent's native land of Korea. He says although he feels ties to the land f his forefathers, he can call only one place home.

Daniel talks to Joe Arpaio, sherrif of Maricopa County Arizona, who has a program to arrest parents who are delinquent in their child support payments. Arpaio uses his volunteer posse to track down mothers and fathers who have fallen so far behind in their payments that warrants have been issued for their arrest. They are taken to jail, and their bail is set at the amount of money they owe.

JUST WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR IN THE WAR IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA? THE IMAGES OF THE SERBS BEING FORCED OUT OF THE KRAJINA HAVE FORCED A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THIS ONGOING CONFLICT. NPR'S TREVOR ROWE REPORTS FROM NEW YORK.

STAMBERG/RENT A FORT: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH GARY JOHNSON, GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO, ABOUT WHY HIS STATE WANTS TO RENT OUT FORT STANTON, A THIRTEEN-HUNDRED ACRE GARRISON BUILT IN 1855.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Dallas, where Ross Perot's loyal ollowers have gathered to hear speeches from the major presidential candidates. any at the conference see this as a crossroads in American political history