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WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT McNAMARA ABOUT THE REACTION UNLEASHED BY HIS BOOK "IN RETROSPECT: THE TRAGEDY AND LESSONS OF VIETNAM," PUBLISHED BY TIME BOOKS, A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE.

IN THE WAKE OF THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING, SCOTT SIMON LOOKS BACK OVER THIS WEEK'S EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN FEARS THAT PROVED TO BE UNFOUNDED.

The United Nations is reporting that perhaps as many as four thousand Rwandans have been killed at a refugee camp. Daniel talks with New York Times reporter Donatella Lorch who was at the Kibeho refugee camp when the Rwandan Army started shooting into a crowd of stampeding refugees.

Daniel talks with researcher Ferris Harvey who co-authored a labor department report on child labor in India and Pakistan. This past week, a 12 year old boy who was a vocal opponent to child labor in Pakistan, was murdered. Harvey says millions of children from Bangladesh to Brazil are forced to make many of the products, such as find rugs and carpets, that Americans have come to cherish. And though it's unclear who killed the young Iqbal Masih, Harvey says murders of child labor opponents or agitators aren't uncommon in many parts of the world.

GARDENING: SPRING IS IN THE AIR SO...SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH WEEKEND EDITION GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE.

ROBERTS/FERRET: A TEN-YEAR EFFORT BY WILDLIFE EXPERTS TO BRING THE WESTERN BLACK-FOOTED FERRET BACK FROM THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION IS ON THE VERGE OF SUCCEEDING, BUT THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO ELIMINATE THE PROGRAM. CONCERNED CONSERVATIONISTS MET THIS WEEK IN DENVER TO RAISE THE $250,000 NEEDED TO EXTEND THE BREEDING PROGRAM ONE MORE YEAR, BUT THAT MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. MARK ROBERTS REPORTS.

Daniel talks with brain surgeon Richard Fraser of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center about the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination 130 years ago Friday. Fraser maintains that the bullet John Wilkes Booth fired would have disabled the president but need not have killed him. Shoddy medical care, even by nineteenth century standards, served only to worsen the dire situation.

In an installment entitled "Water Street, U.S.A.," producer ulian Crandall Hollick (HAH-lick) looks at the multitude of small businesses in nd around the Bombay neighborhood of Byculla (BYE-cuh-luh), where many of the ountry's poorest residents live in makeshift huts built on the pavement. Many f the pavement dwellers make their living sewing clothes which are exported to he United States.

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. bagan closing any of its overseas military bases. Annie Allsebrook reports from England on ne community's experience with the "downsizing" of the American presence verseas.

Daniel talks to Buck Revell, a former FBI official, about the process by which suspects are apprehended. Although much of the nation was surprised by the speed with which Timothy McVeigh was apprehended, Revell says he is not surprised. There are computer networks that track information on explosions, terrorists, vehicles, and criminals which can be utilized quickly to find suspects.