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The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES IN BOSNIA, AND SCOTT SIMON QUESTIONS WHETHER WE CARE ENOUGH.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with psychoanalyst Jeffrey asson and biologist Susan McCarthy about their new book, WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP: HE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF ANIMALS (Delcorte Press, 1995).

SIMON/ORANGE CUCUMBER: A CUCUMBER, NEW TO THIS COUNTRY, ORANGE WHEN CUT OPEN AND HIGH IN BETA CAROTENE, IS NOW GROWING VERY WELL AT THE USDA'S VEGETABLE CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, AND SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PHILLIPP SIMON, A RESEARCH GENETICIST IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was etonated in the New Mexico desert. This marked the beginning of the nuclear ge, and the ignited the spark that fired the nuclear arms race. The test-bomb as designed and built with remarkable speed by some of the nation's top hysicists.

THIS WEEKEND, THE NEW YORK EDITION OF NEWSDAY CLOSES DOWN TOMORROW...ANOTHER VICTIM OF NEW YORK'S NEWSPAPER WARS. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE REPORTS.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa revisits a Cuban family she last saw boarding a makeshift raft headed towards the United States. Nine months later the family has settled in Miami, but they are far from happy with their new life.

Jacki talks to NPR's Davis Welna about today's municipal and legislative elections in Haiti. It was the first vote in Haiti since the U.S. military intervened there last September.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK VISITS PANAMA, WHERE SCIENTISTS ARE DEVELOPING NEW TECHNIQUES FOR STUDYING THE FORESTS WITH LARGE-SCALE STUDY SITES, MORE THAN 100 ACRES, THAT ARE LEADING TO NEW INSIGHTS ABOUT HOW THESE COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS WORK.

FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS THE CUBAN BAND LOS VAN VAN (lohs VAHN vahn) HAS PERFORMED SONGS THAT SLYLY CRITICIZE THE PITFALLS OF EVERYDAY CUBAN LIFE, WHILE CELEBRATING THAT CULTURE'S EXUBERANCE WITH A RHYTHM THAT IS IRRESISTABLE. THE BAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ON THE ISLAND BECAUSE THE MUSICIANS ARE SINGING ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE WORKING PEOPLE WHO COME TO HEAR THEM. NPR'S JOHN BURNETT VISITED CUBA AND TALKED TO SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF LOS VAN VAN...AND SOME OF THEIR FANS.