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Daniel talks with New York times Correspondent David Sager who is in Hanoi, North Vietnam. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher travelled to Hanoi to open the American Embassy there. It's the first time an American Secretary of State has set foot in Hanoi.

Danny talks to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, who's in Belgrade, about the latest refugee crisis resulting from the war in the former Yugoslavia. Tens of thousands of Serb refugees are on the run, fleeing from Krajina after the Croatian army invaded that area. Krajina had been held by rebel Serbs. Now most of the area is back in Croatian hands.

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HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH BELLA ABZUG, FORMER NEW YORK CONGRESSWOMAN AND ONE OF THE LEADERS OF A COALITION OF UN-OFFICIAL, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS HEADED FOR THE FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN SCHEDULED TO CONVENE IN CHINA NEXT MONTH, ABOUT THE PROBLEMS RIDDLING THE GATHERING.

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.