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-- this time in Catholic areas. Three police officers were shot and injured by rioters in a staunch IRA neighborhood of North Belfast.

Linda talks with Catherine Bowman about the poetry of seventy-year-old Philip Booth. We'll hear one of his early poems and two of his new poems.

Joshua Levs reports from member station W-A-B-E on what Olympic organizers are calling "ambush advertising." The Olympic Committee in Atlanta is concerned about the unlicensed use of Olympic images and references in advertising. After the Olympic Committee threatened a state lawsuit, Adidas withdrew a television commercial this week that depicted images of past Olympic Games.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that for the first time scientists have identified a gene that is involved in a particular kind of thinking. In tomorrow's issue of the journal Cell, researchers report that they identified a gene that appears to play a role in the ability to envision things in three dimensions.

Texas Republicans are meeting in San Antonio this week at their state convention and the issue of abortion is proving extremely divisive. Many state party activists are furious with the Dole campaign and moderate party leaders for not holding firm against including language stating tolerance for other views on abortion in the party platform. Some are threatening to stop one of the state's senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison, from being a state delegate to the Republican national convention. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

Commentator Michael Hood recalls his childhood in the Fifties, when fathers ruled the roost and children knew their parts. Chicken parts were divvied up according to the family food chain, with giblets being the prize: Food of the Dads.

Linda talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about this week's developments in the presidential campaign, including the announcement by former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm that he would run for the Reform Party nomination and billionaire Ross Perot's statements about his plans to run. They'll also talk about the controversy over Bob Dole's decision not to address the annual convention of the NAACP and President Clinton's appearance before the civil rights group.

that contains nearly $66 Billion for social programs and education in the next fiscal year. That amounts to a freeze at current year levels. If it clears Congress, the measure faces a likely veto from President Clinton.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) works at home, but she misses the office -- the daily flow of human interaction among colleagues. So she has joined an on-line group where they regularly enjoy jokes, recipes, memories, and dreams: the skin contact of cyberspace. It isn't like sharing stories with a buddy over the coffeemaker, she says, But it's not like sitting in rush hour traffic, either.

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new film "Courage Under Fire," starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, about the first woman to die in combat as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

- Daniel speaks with Thomas Hanley, one of the defense attornies for Bosian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Hanley argues the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, which has indicted Karadzic as a war criminal and issued a warrent for his arrest, is denying his client due process of law and a fair trail.

- NPR's David Welna reports on the swirl of scandal surrounding Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Charges are being leveled that Zedillo, before he became president, was involved in a case involving suspected corruption.

A federal judge in Montana today ordered Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski to be remanded to Sacramento to face charges that he killed two people and injured two others with bombs. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the risks prosecutors may face if they attempt to seek the death penalty in what will be one of the most carefully watched cases of the decade.

accused of hiding large cash withdrawals to the Clinton gubernatorial campaign in 1990.

Robert talks with Clifford Krauss, the police department bureau chief for the New York Times. Krauss discusses how fingerprint technology and a citywide crackdown on petty crime led to the arrest of three suspected killers in the New York metropolitan area.

Robert and Noah talk about President Clinton's speech before about five thousand labor activists today in Chicago, and Bob Dole's efforts to patch up differences in the Republican party about how to deal with the issue of abortion. (1:30) (TAPE &

which is expected to touch on some sensitive issues such as married priests and birth control.

the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been under negotiation for more than two years...

Commentator Susan Aaronson (AIR-un-sun) says that too often, reporters use inflammatory language or dramatic metaphors to explain economic situations...phrases such as "trade war," in describing our relationship with China, are misleading and inaccurate.

director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom in Washington, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first state visit to Washington...

President Clinton announced today that the administration wants to spend 5 billion dollars over the next four years repairing the nation's schools. The move comes just weeks after a government report documented serious decay in schools nationwide. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

to increase minority representation on jury panels. The efforts face a variety of hurdles including the revelation by a recent study suggesting that African-Americans are less likely to respond to the questionnaires that lead to jury duty.

- Storyteller Carmen Deedee recounts a conversation in which she tried to explain to her Catholic how she came to adopt the religion she currently practices.

Ursula Hegi commentary. Hegi teaches creative writing, writes fiction, and... critical to both pursuits... she is a voracious reader. Hegi, whose works include "Stones from the River" and "Salt Dancers," seeks out a certain kind of reading, and tells her students to do the same. It is essential, she says, to find a book whose pages suck the reader in, causing him or her to forget the real world altogether.

- Daniel speaks with Beth Fertig, of member station WNYC, about the latest evidence from TWA Flight 800 that investigators have pulled up from the waters off Long Island.