July 11, 1995

    All Things Considered
    (entire program)

    • News Update

    • Mike Shuster reports on President Clinton's announcement. He said the move is a result of Hanoi's cooperation in accounting for American POWs but the search for missing Americans would not end.(3:30)

    • Noah talks with people at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial about today's announcement that the U-S will normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam.(3:30)

    • Noah talks with Eugene Matthews, an American businessman in Hanoi, about normalized relations between the U-S and Vietnam. Matthews is the president of Ashta International headquartered in Hanoi. He says it's not too late for American businessmen to get a foothold in Vietnam, but it does require lots of groundwork and a real willingness to relocate there.(3:30)

    • We hear archival tape from January 1973 -- and President Nixon announcing the ceasefire.(1:30)

    • The National Security Agency today released decoded intercepted KGB messages from the 1940's. The Cold War-era documents describe Soviet efforts to steal U.S. plan for the atomic bomb, and indicate that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as spies by the U.S in 1953, were in fact working for the Soviet Union. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.(5:00)

    • Peter Kenyon reports that Democrats held an unofficial hearing on right-wing militias today, after the Republican leadership refused their request for a formal hearing. New York Democratic congressman Charles Schumer conducted the Capitol Hill forum, saying the GOP is afraid to upset its "radical fringe" by examining the militias. Some state and local officials testified at the meeting that they have been beaten and otherwise harassed by anti-government militia members.(3:00)

    • News Update

    • Linda talks with Walter Dellinger, Assistant Attorney General, about the effect of the Supreme Court decision on the Adarand Constructors Inc. V. Pena case, upon affirmative action programs and the new guidelines for federal programs issued by the Justice Dept.(5:00)

    • Linda talks with NPR's Cheryl Devall about an argument that broke out today at the NAACP annual convention in Minneapolis. The disagreement between the powerful Detroit branch and the national leadership pushed everything else off the morning agenda and sent representatives into closed door negotiations for 2 1/2 hours. Although the two sides tentatively settled their differences, later this afternoon, the fight exposed tensions that remain after months of turmoil. (4:00)

    • Tonight, the Major League All Star Game is being played in Dallas. Linda previews tonight's game.(1:00)

    • News Update

    • Noah talks with Ron Redmond of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Geneva about the people fleeing from Srebrencia. An estimated 20-thousand Moslems are looking for protection while the UNHCR negotiates with the Bosnian Serbs for safe passage through to areas held by the Bosnian government.(4:00)

    • Tom Gjelten reports on the ramifications of the fall of Srebrencia for U.N forces and the multi-national Rapid Reaction Force. A United States officials said today the U.N. has reached a turning point...it must decide if it it's going to beef up its forces and stay in Bosnia or withdraw completely from the battle zone.(5:00)

    • Richard Harris reports that a federal task force today issued a set of recommendations aimed at reducing lead paint in residential buildings. The recommendations are aimed at reducing the number of children w ho experience lead poisoning. The task force is calling for basic safety standards for rental property built before 1978, when the use of lead-based paint was banned. Some members of the task force, however, are dissenting from the report, saying it fails to go far enough.(4:30)

    • Diedre Berger reports from Frankfurt that deputies in the European Parliament angry about France's plan to renew nuclear testing drowned out French President Jacques Chirac with jeers as he tried to address t hem today. France says it will carry out eight atomic tests before signing a global test ban treaty next year. The decision has sparked protests throughout Europe; German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was expected to raise the issue in a meeting with Chirac today.(3:30)

    • News Update

    • John McChesney reports a new study has intensified the ongoing debate about pornography on the Internet. The study, by an undergraduate engineering student at Carnegie-Mellon University, provoked a major controversy after Time Magazine used it as the basis of a cover story entitled "Cyberporn."(6:30)

    • Linda talks to Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Congressman Fred Heineman (R-NC), both members in their first term of office. We have been checking in with them periodically throughout the year to see how their work has been going. Lofgren says that people in her district are distressed that so many programs like Medicare and student loans are being cut. Heineman says that he will run for another two terms and then end his congressional career.(6:00)