May 22, 1998 All Things Considered (entire program) Requires the RealAudio Player

An index of the day's stories:

JAKARTA TODAY -- NPR's Mary Kay Magistad talks with Linda about the Indonesian army's actions today. The military has ordered student protestors to vacate the Parliament building that the students have occupied for the last six days. Late Friday the students abandoned their vigil but they are still calling for reform. Despite former president Suharto's resignation and the appointment of B-J Habibie in his place, students are still calling for change: specifically, they are demanding new elections for a truly democratic government. (4:30)

OREGON SHOOTING UPDATE -- Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting provides the latest information on yesterday's school shooting in Springfield, Oregon, in which a fifteen-year-old gunman killed two students and injured close to two dozen others. (1:30)

CLINTON AT ANNAPOLIS -- President Clinton today addressed graduates of the United States Naval Academy. His speech focused on the threats facing Americans in the next century. He says he's ordering new steps to protect against cyber-terrorists and chemical and biological attacks. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports. (3:30)

FIGHTING IN SPORTS -- Linda talks with regular All Things Considered contributor Stephan Fatsis, who writes about sports for the Wall Street Journal, with our Friday roundup of sports news. This week, they discuss the issue of fighting in sports competitions, and whether the violence is getting out of control. (4:15)

CALAMITIES OF EXILE -- Robert talks to reporter Lawrence Weschler, the author of a new book called "Calamities of Exile." The book features three profiles of men who challenged their totalitarian governments and ended up in exile. They are South African poet Breyton Breytenbach, Jan Kavan of Czechoslovakia, and Kanan Makiya of Iraq. All three men, he says, share an edginess and kind of extraordinary belief in the rightness of what they are doing. (STATIONS: "Calamities of Exile" is published by the University of Chicago Press.) (12:30)

VESSELS OF COURAGE AND HOPE -- "Vessels of Courage and Hope" is the name of a new orchestral work by Shulamit Ran. She's Composer-in-Residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and winner of the 1991 Pulitzer for music. The work is being premiered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. It was inspired by the story of the S.S. President Warfield, built in Baltimore. In 1947, a Baltimore businessman put up all of the money to refit the ship - in secret - as a blockade runner. It was renamed the Exodus and, carrying 4500 Jewish refugees, it attempted to steam into British-occupied Palestine. The Exodus was stopped and its' passengers were taken to detention camps in Germany. The incident helped precipitate the United Nations partition of Palestine. Ran is Israeli and the work commemorates Israel's 50th and Baltimore's part in it. The work is performed Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. NPR's Dean Olsher reports. (7:45)

SPRINGFIELD OREGON TODAY -- NPR's Mandalit Del Barco provides a broader picture of the unfolding story in yesterday's Springfield, Oregon school shooting. Bombs have been found in the family home. There are mixed descriptions of the teenager who is being held in the shootings. (4:30)

JUVENILE MURDER I -- Robert and Linda talk with Vincent Schiraldi, the director of the Justice Policy Institute, and Ronald Stephens, the executive director of the National School Safety Center. Schiraldi believes that the spate of student-shootings at schools is one that has been created and fueled by the media. Stephens believes that the attacks indicate a trend away from single-victim shootings to multiple, indiscriminate shootings. (7:45)

JUVENILE MURDER II -- Robert and Linda conclude their discussion on juvenile homicides. (NOTE: To find out more about the Justice Policy Institute, contact their Web site at: http://www.cjcj.org. To contact the National School Safety Ctr: http://www.nssc1.org/ (4:00)

MANDATORY EXPULSION -- NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that a federal law, passed in 1994, mandates that children be expelled for bringing a firearm to school. According to a recent US Department of Education report, more than 6,000 were expelled during the past school year. But critics charge that law specifies no follow-up for those expelled, so they end up on the street with no one paying attention to their particular set of problems. (3:30)

SECRET SERVICE -- A federal judge has ruled that Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Judge Norma Holloway Johnson rejected arguments made by the Clinton administration that the agents had a special privilege. The decision is the latest in a string of legal victories for Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr in his efforts to investigate an alleged presidential affair and cover-up. Robert talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about the options that the Clinton administration now has regarding the testimony. The administration could appeal the decision, or try to invoke executive privilege to keep the agents from testifying. (3:15)

HIGHWAY BILL -- NPR's Brian Naylor reports from Capitol Hill that Congressional conference committee negotiators reached agreement overnight on a final version of the six-year $204 billion transportation funding bill. The measure includes funding for highways, bridges and mass transportation initiatives. The Senate and House both passed the bill today; in order to present the bill for the president's signature before members leave for the Memorial Day weekend. (4:00)

CHINA/MISSILES -- Documents released by the White House today show that the Justice Department cautioned President Clinton against giving a waiver to a company to launch a satellite in China. Justice Department prosecutors feared such a decision would jeopardize an ongoing criminal investigation of the company...Loral Space and Communications. Clinton granted the waiver just six days later - a decision that investigators are now probing to determine if it was influenced by nearly $1 million in donations to Democrats from Loral's chairman, Bernard L. Schwartz, since 1995. NPR's Peter Overby has a report. (4:00)

VIAGRA DEATHS -- NPR's Patricia Neighmond has an update on the new drug for impotence, Viagra. The FDA has confirmed that it is investigating six deaths among men taking the drug. It appears that they may have also been taking a heart medication -- and the interaction of the two drugs may have contributed to their deaths. The FDA declined to release further information about the deaths today; a spokesman for the drug's maker, Pfizer, also declined to provide specifics. (2:30)

BUSY AIR TRAVEL DAY -- Today has overtaken Thanksgiving as the busiest travel day of the year. Reporter Joshua Levs visited Atlanta's Hartsfield airport to see how one of the country's most crowded airports is coping with the crush of travelers. (4:00)

POTATO CHIP LADY -- NPR's Noah Adams reports on a quirky scene outside one polling station in Belfast. A performance artist had set up a table and was offering voters potato chips from two bowls marked "North" and "South." (3:30)