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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.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR reporter Linda Gradstein bout two explosions which tore through a crowded army bus station this orning just outside the Israeli resort town of Netanya (nay-TAHN-yuh). More han a dozen people, most of them soldiers, were killed, and more than 50 njured.

Most military training flight paths are routed hrough the least populated areas of the United States. This cuts down on the oise polution and other potential disturbances in metropolitan and suburban merica. Malcolm Howard reports that the military has announced plans to expand ts military flight areas, and many of the country's rural residents are up in rms.

AFTER HAVING BEEN FIRED FROM THE NAACP LAST YEAR, THE ORGANIZATION'S FORMER PRESIDENT, DR. BENJAMIN CHAVIS HAS FOUND A NEW CAREER. THIS MORNING HE LAUNCHES A NEW WEEKLY RADIO TALK SHOW CALLED "THE FREEDOM JOURNAL" ON SIX BLACK-ORIENTED STATIONS IN THE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON AREA. NPR'S LAURA KNOY REPORTS.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH TRUDY LIEBERMAN, SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE EDITOR FOR CONSUMER REPORTS MAGAZINE, ABOUT AN INVESTIGATION SHE PARTICIPATED IN REGARDING NURSING HOMES AROUND THE COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF THE FINDINGS APPEAR IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE, AND THE SECOND AND THIRD PARTS OF THE MAGAZINE'S SERIES ON CARE FOR THE ELDERLY WILL APPEAR IN THE SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER ISSUES.

The dropping of the atomic bomb on the apanese city of Hiroshima ushered in the dawn of the nuclear age. From iroshima, NPR reporter Julie McCarthy covers the 50th anniversary memorial eremony being held in Peace Park, which was built near ground zero in memory of he victims of the destructive bomb that ended the second World War.

Not so long ago, people were fleeing from the economically epressed country of Albania. Tom Whitehouse reports that better times may be head. Currently the Albanian government is working to stimulate the country's conomy by reviving the tourist industry along the nation's beautiful coastal egions. But the planned development is causing concerns among environmentalists hat are worried the country's last unspoiled region will be damaged.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that conservatives are upset over the courtmartial and discharge of Army medic Michael New for refusing to wear a UN patch or blue cap while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New has become a hero to those opposed to the UN because they fear the United States is ceding national sovereignty to a one-world body.

Just who owns jazz? Does it come from an African source? Or is it the result of a confluence of cultures in this country? Saxophonist Archie Shepp believes that jazz belongs to black people, culturally, and that it should be theirs financially too. More from reporter Deal Olsher, on jazz business and jazz history.