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ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE FILMS THE OSCAR COMMITTEE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE IN THEIR NOMINATIONS.

SIMON/OLLIE THE COW: SCOTT SIMON AND BARRY LEVENSON COMMEMORATE TODAY'S 65TH UNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST "FLYING" COW NAMED "ELM FARM OLLIE" AT THE ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL AIR EXPOSITION OF 1930. MR. LEVENSON IS THE CURATOR OF THE MOUNT HOREB MUSTARD MUSEUM AND FOUNDER OF ELM FARM OLLIE DAY, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATION IN MOUNT HOREB, WISCONSIN.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NOMINATION OF DR. HENRY FOSTER, AN OBSTETRICIAN/GYNECOLOGIST AND FORMER HEAD OF MEHARRY (meh-HARRY) MEDICAL COLLEGE IN TENNESSEE, TO THE POSITION OF U.S. SURGEON GENERAL MAY BE IN QUESTION BECAUSE OF THE NEWS THAT HE HAS PERFORMED ABORTIONS.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH 63-YEAR-OLD ROSANNA DELLA CORTE ABOUT HER DECISION TO TRY FOR ANOTHER CHILD. LAST YEAR, AT THE AGE OF 62, SHE BECAME THE WORLD'S OLDEST WOMAN TO GIVE BIRTH.

HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH JEFFREY SHAMUS ABOUT A SNOWBALL HE MADE AND STORED IN HIS MOM'S FREEZER BACK IN 1976 AFTER A RARE SNOWFALL IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, AND WHICH STILL REMAINS THERE IN A PEANUT BUTTER JAR AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on last night's vote for NAACP hairperson. Board chairman William Gibson, who has been accused of misspending he organization's money, was ousted by Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of slain ivil rights organizer Medgar Evars.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on this morning's Israeli abinet meeting at which it was decided to extend Israel's three-week-old losing of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Liane speaks with Israeli journalist Rani Shaked (sha-KED), eporter for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aronoth (yeh-dee-OT ah-row-NOT), bout the role of Israeli settlers in the peace process. Settlements in the West ank and Gaza strip have often been blamed for holding up the peace process and ividing Israel itself.

NPR's Anne Cooper reports on the efforts to investigate alleged atrocities committed by the troops of Laurent Kabila, who this week was sworn in as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire. Kabila has resisted attempts by UN officials to allow access to

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 6:10 This week's on-air player lives in Northfield, Minnesota and listens to innesota Public Radio's KNOW, St.