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Linda talks to Drew Gilpin Faust, author of "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War." (University of North Carolina Press) The book tells the history of white slaveholding women whose lives changed dramatically because of the Civil War. In their letters and diaries, they talk about how they are not prepared to take on household tasks and manage slaves in the absence of their husbands. Even though they are anxious for the ward to end, they do not question the morality of slavery.

A new report released today by the General Accounting Office says the Internal Revenue Service had botched a multi-billion dollar modernization project. The project, to replace the agency's thirty-year-old computer system, has already cost taxpayers more than four billion dollars. The GAO says the new system is way over budget, far from being finished, and riddled with problems. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

militant Islamic group Hamas. Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank, and has resorted to tactics not used since the intifada, or Palestinian uprising, in 1988. Hamas says it is undeterred by the Israeli aggression, and has promised renewed terrorist attacks against Israel.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on Iran's film industry. Despite restrictions on the portrayal of sex and violence that would leave American movie producers wondering how to fill a feature-length film, Iran manages to create award-winning movies that receive international recognition.

One of the most important...and controversial...West Coast sculptors of the 1950's through the '90's (but especially the 1960's), Kienholz (pronounced KEEN-holz) created life-sized tableaux comprised of casts of human figures and real objects in various settings: "Back Seat Dodge" and "The Illegal Operation" are perhaps his best-known....not to mention most self-explanatory...titles. The first major retrospective of his work EVER is at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York city now. Karen Michel reports

Noah Adams talks with Karen Potter a resident of Lincoln, Montana. She is th eopwner of the Blackfoot Market and is the head of the Chamber of Commerce. She talks about fellow Lincoln resident Theodore Kacynski, who she describes as a hermit, but Ms. Potter also says the town is the type of place where resident respect others' privacy.

into the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

Noah Adams talks to John Kornblum, the designate assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs about the efforts to enact the Dayton accords in Bosnia. Mr. Kornblum has replaced Richard Holbrooke, and last year he played a major role in the Dayton talks.

Daniel talks with photographer Thomas Roma who took pictures at 52 African-American Christian churches in Brooklyn - many of them storefront churches. The photographs depict congregants and pastors during sunday morning worship services. Some of these photographs are in the book, "Come Sunday:Photographs by Thomas Roma" (published by The Museum of Modern Art). The photographs are currently on dispay at The Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 18th, 1996. Included in this interview is music from two churches: Reverend Jerry Burns and the Open Door Singers (of the Open Door Outreach Ministry/Brooklyn) and The Mo Gbeke Mi Le O Choir Band (of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Olutunu/Brooklyn).

Robert talks with Dan Swift, president of the Riverside Sheriff's Association. Swift attended a rally held yesterday in support of two deputies who were videotaped beating two illegal immigrants from Mexico. The Mexicans were beaten April 1st after they ran through a border patrol checkpoint in a pickup truck full of illegal immigrants. Swift says what has not yet been determined is whether a reasonable amount of force was applied and the videotape only shows the moment of the arrest.

Today is the day of remembrance for the lives lost in the Holocaust of World War II. In this commentary, Emily Benedek recalls meeting a Holocaust survivor and and learning her explanation for why she did not perish with so many others.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment rate declined by two-tenths of a percent in April to its lowest rate in more than a year. The key labor market rate now stands at 5.4 percent. Analysts judged the monthly employment report weak though, because business payrolls expanded only slightly

Commentator David Brooks thinks Mr. Clinton can learn a thing or two from Russian President Boris Yeltsin during his visit to Moscow... like how to come up with a really catchy campaign slogan.

Linda walks a portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal with

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Air Force T-43 carrying Secretary Ron Brown and delegation wasn't equipped with the so called black box or flight data recorder. The pentagon says that's because the aircraft was procured as a training aircraft...and so it didn't come with that euipment as civilian aircraft do.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how investigators go about trying to link a suspect to a bomb. Experts look for tell tale signs that distinguish one bomb from another, and then look for clues that tie those unique characteristics to a suspect.

In Los Angeles, arrests are markedly down over the past few years. No one knows exactly why, though there's no shortage of opinions. NPR's Mandelit DelBarco says olice chief Willie Williams attributes it to better policing, especially community policing involving citizens. But police officers say the fallout from the Rodney King beating and ensuing riots have made them less enthusiastic in pursuing suspects.

Commentator Bob Mondello takes a look at two movies that were honored at last week's Academy Awards. The Oscar for Best Documentary went to "Anne Frank Remembered," which is just beginning to appear in theaters. Last week also marked the American debut of a German drama called "Stalingrad," about the doomed Nazi battle to crush the Soviet Union.

Daniel talks with Robert Samuelson, author of "The Good Life And Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" (Times Books). Samuelson says the current pessimism that many Americans feel is related to a post-World War Two optimism. He says we've turned the so-called "American Dream" into a fantasy of a Utopian Society in which there are no social or economic problems. But, he says, we cannot expect to solve our problems once and for all - that we'll always need to deal with them.

believes it's time for Republicans to take seriously the possibility that the Democrats could recapture Congress in September.

Today, Israeli troops shelled the headquarters a battalion of U-N peacekeeping troops in South Lebannon. The compound was filled with dozens of refugees. At least seventy-four people are reported dead and many others wounded. Robert Siegel talks with U-N spokesman Timur (TEE-more) Goksel (GOCK-sull) from his office in Southern Lebanon about the shelling. Mr. Goksel describes the compound that was hit and the refugees who were seeking shelter there.

Tom Manoff reviews a recording of Beethoven bagetelles.

the federal health insurance program for the poor, NPR's Vicky Que looks at a trend in some states to cut back or eliminate their own medical assistance programs which provide health care to the unemployed and working poor who are not covered by Medicaid. Is it a harbinger of what they might do with the federal program?

NPR'S Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the trial of a former Nazi SS Captain charged with one of Italy's worst massacres during the second World War. Erich Priebke ((preeb-keh)) was extradited to Italy last November from Argentina. He stands accused for his part in killing of 335 men and boys near Rome in 1944.

Although the fishing season started last weekend in Wisconsin many of the northern lakes are still frozen. Nick Van der Puy [pie] found one fishing spot where anglers are catching walleye.