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NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

Many controls imposed on the warring factions in Bosnia Hercegovina ave been slowly disintegrating as the deadline for the four-month cease-fire ears its May 1st expiration date. Areas once deemed safe and protected have ome under fire, and heavy shelling and firefighting have erupted between osnian government troops and Serbian forces throughout the region. Richard arruthers reports from Zagreb on the current turmoil in Bosnia as the United ations works to extend the deadline.

SIMON/RAPOPORT: SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, WHICH BEGINS THIS WEEK.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FILM REVIEWER AND AUTHOR PAULINE KAEL ABOUT HER NEW BOOK "FOR KEEPS - 30 YEARS AT THE MOVIES" PUBLISHED BY DUTTON.

FROM LONDON, NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDFARB REPORTS ON THE ON-GOING DISPUTE BETWEEN CANADA AND SPAIN OVER FISHING GROUNDS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports that there's an answer to the great infant formula mystery. The mystery opened a year ago, when strange reports began coming in from all over the country. Men and boys were walking into discount stores, and buying cartloads of baby formula with fists full of cash. Suspicious police called in the F-B-I, the customs service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the State Department and the Immigration Service. But no one figured out why baby formula was such a hot commodity. Until now.

Last Friday, President Clinton formally ended U.S. military nvolvement in Haiti and turned peace-keeping duties over to the Haitian people. ost Liane Hansen speaks with former President Jimmy Carter about his eace-making efforts in the Sudan, Haiti and Bosnia.

Jacki talks with James Bicknell of Seattle about his marketing kits that will store DNA. DNA is the genetic code in chromosomes of living plants and animals. Every living thing has a unique and distinct code. Bicknell is selling kits for people to save their DNA for future reference...maybe thousands of years.

Masks will be required at all Illinois long-term care facilities, day cares and Pre-K-12 schools, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19.

Jacki talks with former senator John Danforth about the need for social security reform. Danforth says that by the year 2029, if not before, the social security program will be bankrupt and that entitlement programs will consume all federal taxes. Danforth faults politicians for not having the courage to stake their political futures on addressing this issue.