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In today's competitive world of produce - maintaining ideals about the quality and flavor of the fruits you grow has become increasingly difficult. David Mas Masumoto has had to compromise his ideals in order to keep making money off his peach orchard in southern California and in doing so is slowly weeding out a variety of peach his father began growing and one Masumoto still maintains is far better than any peach available today. In his book "Epitaph for a Peach" Masumoto writes about the demise of the "Suncrest" variety. "Epitaph for a Peach" is published by HarperSanFrancisco.

Daniel talks with Journalist David Shipler and Michael Dawson, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Both Shipler and Dawson have researched Black American attitudes toward government and the criminal justice system.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from the Middle East on ecretary of State Warren Christopher's meeting with Syrian President Hafez ssad. Over the weekend Christopher announced the latest step foward in the eace process: Plans for a series of discussions between Syrian and Israeli fficials have been scheduled to begin at the end of the month.

SCOTT SIMON DISCUSSES STATESMANSHIP...EVIDENT THIS WEEK WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCED THE OPENING OF RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including a radio transmission between a French sailor and a reenpeace activist, as well as Greenpeace Spokesperson Stephanie Mills as the rench storm a Greenpeace ship protesting nuclear testing; President Bill linton on normalization of relations with Vietnam and Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) n his opposition to the President's Vietnam policy; U.S. Intelligence pokesperson revealing intercepted 1940's KGB messages linking Julius and Ethel osenberg to espionage; Rep. Charlie Rose (D-NC) and Anti-Tobacco Lawyer atthew Meyers on whether or not the FDA should regulate tobacco; and teen moker Crystal Griffith.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WIH LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE UNDER PRESIDENT BUSH AND AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA UNDER PRESIDENTS CARTER AND REAGAN, AND ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (SBIG-new breh-SHIN-skee), NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT CARTER, ABOUT THE CHANGES THAT THE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBILCANS ARE PROPOSING IN FOREIGN AID AND ABOUT THIS WEEKS' NATO BOMBING OF BOSNIAN SERB POSITIONS.

CHADWICK/BERLIN WALL THEME PARK: HOST ALEX CHADWICK TALKS WITH ROSS KOTHEN, PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR A PROPOSED BERLIN WALL THEME PARK BEING PLANNED IN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA.

CONAN/MARGARET CHASE SMITH: NPR'S NEAL CONAN REMEMBERS MAINE SENATOR MARGARET CHASE SMITH WHO DIED THIS WEEK AT THE AGE OF 97.

Mike O'Conner reports from Sarajevo that Bosnian government troops are trying to consolidate their gains in a military offensive unleashed over the past few days.

Daniel talks to Dr. Samuel Pallin, a surgeon in Phoenix, Arizona, who holds a patent on a surgical technique. Dr. Pallin is suing another doctor who uses the same technique, claiming it is an infringement on his patent. They are joined by George Annas of the Boston University medical school, who says that patents for surgical techniques contribute to the de-professionalization of medicine. Annas says that traditionally doctors have not patented their procedures as intellectual property and that tradition should be continued.