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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Dr. Robert Kirschner, forensic nvestigator and director of the International Forensic program for the group hysicians for Human Rights. He has just returned from a mass grave site nvestigation in Rwanda, and expects to go to Bosnia sometime in the Spring

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the opening day of a meeting involving the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and mediators from the NATO-led implementation force (IFOR) in Bosnia. The meeting was called to try to iron out difficulties in implementing the Dayton peace accord. Among the problems: the Bosnian Serbs cut off contacts with IFOR after two army officers, suspected of war crimes, were picked up by the Bosnian government and later flown to The Hague for investigation before the war crimes tribunal.

CRUTCHES: Essayist Tim Brookes relates the life-lessons learned fter he was forced to hobble about on crutches for a few weeks.

involving a man whose grown daughter suddenly remembered how her father killed her childhood playmate 20 years ago has. His 1990 conviction was overturned in 1994, and now this case of repressed memories is being retried.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including former Assistant Secretary of State Bernard Aronson, Republican andidates Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole, former Senator Warren Rudman, and Harold ckes (ICK-ees) and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato at the Senate Whitewater hearing.

V - Commentator Katherine Kersten says that although parents may closely supervise what their kids eat, seek out the best schools and monitor homework---they exercise little oversight and impose few standards when it comes to movies, TV and video games that fill kids' afterschool hours. Since entertainment is part of charachter building, that means beavis and butthead are the role models. she says children need to adopt heros and heroines worthy of admiration.

falls in love with a horse-- and finds her suburban state of mind challenged by the experience.

where a Serb sniper was killed by NATO forces, two U.S. servicemen were wounded by a landmine, and the U.N. is launching an investigation of a suspected mass gravesite in northeastern Bosnia.

Ley (Lee) Garnett of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports from Portland on the devastation from the week's rain and melting snow. The week's downpour has killed at least three people in Oregon and one in southern Washington state. In Portland, retaining walls along the Willamette River have been holding as the river nears it crest. But the Columbia River on the city's north side continues to rise. Half of Oregon's counties are disaster areas and the governor has asked for federal relief.

WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS "BROKEN ARROW," DIRECTED BY HONG KONG ACTION FILM DIRECTOR JOHN WOO.