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NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce personnel changes today in the wake of the controversy surrounding its investigation of ValuJet. The FAA asked ValuJet to suspend operations because of problems with the low-cost airline's maintenance procedures. FAA Administrator David Hinson said the case has highlighted problems with the agency as well.

Music reviewer Mark Jenkins has a report on music from some of today's all-girl bands who call themselves "Riot Grrrls." (GIRLS) Their style features confrontational, in-your-face lyrics, and an uncompromisingly frank attitude about men, sexuality, and modern life. Jenkins takes a look at music from the Raincoats, Bikini Kill, and Sleater-Kinney. (IN STEREO)

Surgeons are increasingly finding ways to operate on fetuses while they are still in the womb. The operations can correct problems that in the past would have been fatal, or left the child with severe disabilities. But the operations raise many questions, including whether they are worth the cost and risk to the mother. Neil Tichner (TICK-nur) of member station WHYY in Philadelphia reports.

NPR's Joe Neel has an update on the AMA's decision to keep its policy of opposing physician-assisted suicide. In a debate that fizzled at the annual convention, one physician charged that the organization is simply avoiding the issue.

Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.

Robert talks with Newsweek Washington correspondent Michael Isikoff about today's report that Bruce Lindsey, a close advisor to President Clinton, has been named as a co-conspirator in the current Whitewater trial. Although Lindsey is not being indicted, this latest news is more trouble for the White House.

Noah talks with Brad Stillman, the telecommunications policy director for the Consumer Federation of America, to discuss Westinghouse Electric's three-point-nine billion dollar acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting and what it means for consumers.

Commentator Fred Grandy applauds Robert Dole for rattling GOP cages with his statements about abortions and urges him to take his rattling a step further: dump the whole GOP mission statement. He says such statements are old fashioned and open to scolding by the press.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Moscow on the continuing shake-up in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin today fired three of the most powerful members of his administration. The dismissals included his personal security chief, the head of the Federal Security Service...what used to be the K-G-B... and a hard-line deputy prime minister.

Last week Seattle got a small taste of disaster when an earthquake rumbled briefly, upsetting household pets and knocking crockery off of shelves. But some people are never satisfied. For Commentator Michael Hood, terra firma isn't all its cracked up to be. He's waiting for the big one.

via video was the focus of the Whitewater trial yesterday. In a surprise move, the defense rested its case as soon as the President was finished.

A House committee opened hearings today into the White House's improperly obtaining FBI background files on top Republicans. While the committee looks into the matter, the White House has appointed Charles Easley, a career civil servant originally appointed during the Reagan administration, to be the new head of security. He'll run the office which obtained the files. NPR's Peter Kenyon has more on the story.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the House of Representatives today passed a bill that would impose sanctions against foreign individuals or companies investing in Iran or Libya's oil industries. The legislation is similar to the Helms-Burton Law, which punishes certain foreign firms doing business in Cuba. As with Helms-Burton, the Iran-Libya bill is raising the ire of America's trading partners, who say it violates international rules of free trade.

about their series on slavery in Sudan which ran earlier this week in the Baltimore Sun. The two of them traveled to the southern part of Sudan to investigate whether slavery actually exists there. To prove that it does,they bought two African boys from an Arab slave trader and then freed them. Sudan's fundamentalist Islamic government denies that slavery is practiced there.

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This past week, Baylor University in Waco Texas held an unusual event - a dance. Baylor is a Baptist University and traditionally Baptists take a dim view of dancing. But it's latest president, Dr. Robert Sloan believes that school days should be fun and that there's an appropriate place at university for a tasteful twist or two.

The Kitchen Sisters Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva report on a visit by former Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio to the Sicilian village of his ancestors. Despite nearly a year's worth of preparation by the townspeople of Isola della Femine (EE-sole-uh della FEM-ee-nuh) the visit did NOT go off as planned.

The Supreme Court sided with gay rights activists today by throwing out a Colorado constitutional amendment. The measure had said that laws could NOT be enacted that protected homosexuals from discrimination. The justices ruled against the amendment by a 6-to-3 vote. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that the majority opinion said the amendment would have denied gays a political right enjoyed by other people...the right to seek protection against discrimination.

Jacki speaks with reporter Denise Hamilton of Wired Magazine about the problem of computer software copyright infringement in the United States. This week, the US announced that it would impose trade sanctions on China because illegal reproductions of computer software are being sold there for a fraction of the price of authentic software. Hamilton says that the problem is serious WITHIN our borders as software bootleggers are becoming ever-more sophisticated.

Noah talks with Brian Cummings of the Bozo Frog Team. Cummings's three-legged frog, named "Three Legs are Better than None," won the 1996 World Class Championship Frog Jumping Jubilee on Sunday at the Calaveras County Fair in California. This is the third three-legged frog Cummings has entered in the Championship during his seventeen-year frog racing career.

Chris Nuttall (NUT-ll) reports that Turkey has begun training the first contigent of soldiers from the Bosnian Federation Army. The army is composed of Muslim troops who are allied against the Bosnian Serb army. Turkey is teaching federation army soldiers how to use tanks and heavy artillery.

Daniel talks with Andy Griffith about his latest endeavor in show business...a gospel album. Griffith says it has always been his dream to be a singer and he was actually a music major in college. Although he is close to 70 years old, he claims his voice has gotten better with age. Griffith's new cd is called I Love to Tell The Story. (SPARROW RECORDS)

Robert speaks with Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times Bureau Chief in Jerusalem, about the meeting in Gaza today of the Palestine National Council. For decades, the P-N-C has been the government in exile for Palestinians. This is the group's first meeting in territory controlled by Palestinians and Yasser Arafat is asking the council to remove their constitutional clause calling for the destruction of Israel. Many of the participants have rejected any accommodation with Israel in the past.

Anderson and Lieutenant Commander William G. Stubbs, who collided yesterday during combat training exercises in FA-18A Hornet fighter jets and managed to fly their damaged aircraft back to base...