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The strategically important nation has been ruled by one man for the past 30 years, but President Suharto, is now 75, and recent rumors of his ill health are affecting the country's financial strength.

President Clinton has chosen a new chief of Naval Operations to replace Admiral Mike Boorda, who committed suicide last month. The president is nominating Admiral Jay Johnson, who has been the Navy's number-two officer for the past few months. NPR's Martha Raddatz has more on Johnson's career.

Reform Party presidential candidates Richard Lamm and Ross Perot will appear together this weekend at the Maine and Virginia Reform Party conventions. The two will face off at the party's national convention next month, but are currently courting party members to put their names on a nominating ballot due next week. Ballots have been sent out to more than one million people who signed petitions to put the party on state ballots around the country. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Africa's newest nation. Eritrea defeated the occupying Ethiopian forces in 1993 despite being heavily outnumbered. Now the new country surges with music and images that valorizes their struggle for independence.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Jerry Horton, the superintendent for the North Pontotoc [PAWN-uh-tawk] School District in Ecru, Mississippi. He pledges to keep some religion in the area's public schools, despite a federal court ruling against the district's practice of broadcasting prayers and Bible classes over the intercom system.

about the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team. Better known as the "Dream Team", the squad is heavily favored to win the Olympic gold medal. Last night, for example, they crushed the Chinese Olympic team by a score of 119-58 in an exhibition match -- Moran says it's the type of result that's come to be expected of them.

Linda talks to Officer Richard Troen (TROW-ehn), a member of the bomb technician squad of the Washington D.C. police. He says that pipe bombs are the most common type of bomb because they are simple and faily inexpensive to make.

in the Centennial Park bombing.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast that the police in Northern Ireland today changed their minds and allowed a Protestant fraternal group of marchers to parade through a Catholic neighborhood. To clear the way for the marchers, police dragged off a group of Catholics who were sitting in the middle of the road to protest the march.

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at the Reverend Martin Luther King's former church for the victims of the Atlanta bombing.

of Atlanta's Centennial Park this morning after being closed three days following Saturday's bomb.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica where one year ago today, the Bosnian Serb army over-ran the United Nations safe-area. During the next three days, thousands of Muslim men and boys disappeared. Now, Srebrenica is flooded with Serbs. They are refugees from Sarajevo and other areas that have been turned over to the Bosnian-Croat Federation.

- Daniel talks with Harvard professor Howard Gardner about his theories of multiple intelligences. Included among them is what he terms "athletic" or "bodily kinesthetic" intelligence. He says that this kind of intelligence is just as "smart" as the intelligence of a surgeon. Gardner also says that athletes combine athletic intelligence with other kinds of intelligence such as musical, spacial, and personal intelligence. (Gardner is the author of many books including, "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" HarperCollins/Basic Books,1983)

- Daniel visits the Forensic Documents Lab at the U-S Immigration and Naturalization Service. Analysts in the lab use high tech equipment to study questionable immigration documents. They are specialists in detecting counterfeit techniques, including alterations impossible to detect with the naked eye. The Atlanta Committee on the Olympic Games asked the lab to design the Olympic visa which has numerous security features.

Reporter Alice Furlaud (FURR-loh) profiles poet Ellen Hinsey, winner of the 1995 Yale Younger Poets Prize. It is a prize given to an American...under 40...who has never been published. Hinsey's book "Cities of Memory" has just been released, and poetry editors admire her unique approach. (7:45) (Stations: "Cities of Memory" is published by the Yale University Press,

- NPR's David Molpus reports from Atlanta on authorities search for suspects in the pipe bomb explosion at the Olympic village early Saturday morning.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that state- sponsored terrorism was the talk of Washington yesterday, both on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

Noah has information on Hurricane Bertha, which has prompted an evacuation order along the nation's southeastern coast.

He directed nearly 80 films, including "Wings," which won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture; "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda; and "The Public Enemy," which launched Jimmy Cagney's career. He also co-wrote and directed the original, 1937 version of "A Star is Born." Yet no-one outside of film circles remembers William Wellman's name. That's why his son has produced a documentary that's screening theatrically (at AFI on 7/31) and will air on TNT in August (8/13). Ken Bader, of member station WBUR reports.

the navy divers have working in on the ocean floor in the search for clues and wreckage...

Commentator Marianne Jennings says the guilt of finding good child care can get intolerable...she thinks of all the high level execs that have left their jobs to spend more time with their families---they aren't satisfied with having anyone else but themselves take care of their kids.

Chris Nuttall reports from Ankara, Turkey, where prisoners demanding better conditions are holding a "death fast". The first woman prisoner died today. That brings to eight the number of prisoners who have died in the past week. Also today, ten-thousand Kurdish militants joined the strike.

As the summer's first major storm hits the U.S., NPR's Adam Hochberg will talk with Linda about damage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Eileen Leblanc (luh-BLAHNK) of member station WHQR will report from Wilmington, NC. Both cities are in the path of the storm.

Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.