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The Pentagon announced today that NATO peacekeeping troops in Bosnia have been put on the highest state of alert because of fears of a possible terrorist attack. Noah talks to NPR's Martha Raddatz about the reasons for the alert and the vulnerability of NATO bases in Bosnia.

Scott with some thoughts about this week's announcement from NASA scientists that life may have existed on Mars.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean at the nnenberg School for Communication, about talk radio: who listens, who calls in, nd how it affects voting patterns.

A former White House employee has told Senate investigators that she informed ex-personnel security chief Craig Livingstone that FBI background files were being gathered on former presidential aides. That's contrary to testimony from Livingstone. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

LETTERS: Liane Hansen reads mail from listeners.

Linda talks with two young voters who are attending their first convention. They are with the Young Voter Program, two among more than 700 voters between the ages of 16 and 25 who have come to San Diego from all 50 states to watch the political process in action. Brian Wilson from Louisiana and Jeannie Rhoads from California talk about being on the floor, and about how the Republican approach to the nation's economy is what attracts them to the party.

In the first criminal action taken against a government official in the Ruby Ridge case, a senior FBI agent was charged today with obstruction of justice. In 1992, FBI agents shot and killed the wife and child of a white separatist during a siege of his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. There are reports that the agent charged today may have agreed to co-operate with prosecutors in their investigation of government action during the siege. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's gardening afficionado, Ketzel Levine (KET-zul luh-VEEN) about gardening tool design and the health hazards of horticulture. Guest Bonnie Lee Appleton, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech University and Extension Nursery Specialist at the Hampton Roads Acriculture Experiment Station, joins the discussion.

to try to agree on a formula to end the refugee crisis in eastern Zaire.

- Daniel talks with British comedian Eddie Izzard (eddie IHZ-zard), who is currently making his American debut. John Cleese of Monty Python fame calls Izzard "the funniest man in England today." Izzard's brand of comedy is full of keen observations on everyday life delivered in an ironic, understated manner.