TO: All Stations and Program Directors FR: NPR Programming,-ATC/RAY DT: Wednesday 5, July 1995 RE: 950705.ATC 1st Rundown For All Things Considered,Wednesday 7/5/95 Hosts: Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams Newscaster:Corey Flintoff and Ann Taylor =========================FIRST HOUR======================= BILLBOARD: 59 NEWS2:59 NEWS1:59 CUTAWAY1 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1A 1. MISSLES TO PAKISTAN - NPR's Mike Shuster reports that U.S. intelligence alleges that China has provided Pakistan complete medium range ballistic missiles but both countries are denying reports. If the reports are true, the Clinton Administration would be forced to enact sanctions against China, a confrontation that the administration would like to avoid.(4:00) 2. CHINA & US -NPR's Ted Clark reports that relations between China and the United States are strained as the United States presses for information about the whereabouts of a U.S. citizen. Chinese officials have detained Harry Wu, a human rights activist, and are refusing to disclose where he is being held.(4:00) 3. HUMAN RIGHTS - Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jen-DREEZE-sick), who is the Washington director of Human Rights Watch/Asia, about what he considers to be a soft position the U-S has taken on China's detaining Harry Wu.(4:00) 1B CUTAWAY2 0:59 4. SWISS CHOCOLATE - This week in Switzerland protested a decison that would change the rules in the manufacturing of chocolate. Linda talks to Michael Snyder, editor in chief of Chocolatier magazine about the Swiss' love of chocolate and if anyone would be able to tell the difference, and he reveals what his favorite chocolate.(3:30) -b- 5. SKINNED ALIVE - A review by Alan Cheuse.(1:50) 6. SMITH CORONA - Commentator Marion Winik rhapsodizes on the demise of the Smith Corona. The company declared bankruptcy protection today. Winik had a passionate relationship with her typewriter and tells us about this lost love.(3:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY3 0:29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1C RETURN1 0:29 NEWS2:59 NEWS1:59 CUTAWAY4 0:29 7. AIDS FAMILIES - Jennifer Ludden of member station WBUR reports on the children left behind when a parent dies from AIDS. An agency in Worcester, MA is among the first to teach parents how to prepare their children for what's to come...to counsel the children, and to help older kids become guardians of their younger siblings.(9:30) 8. HEALTH POLITICS: News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that there is a disturbing new trend in politics: politicians are pandering to various health lobbies and religious groups, while claiming their true inspiration comes from personal experience, not a desire to please certain constituencies.(2:30) 1D CUTAWAY5 0:59 9. BLOCK GRANTS - One of the big debates in Congress right now is whether to intrust the Medicaid program to the states, in an effort to lower its cost. The states don't mind that so much. The real fight is over the formula that will be devised to limit funding, in which some states wind up winners, others losers. NPR Joanne Silberner reports.(6:30) -b- 10. MRS.CHEF BOY- AR- DEE.(1:30) FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY6 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD: 59 NEWS2:59 NEWS1:59 CUTAWAY1 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 11. WH & R-R-F -- NPR's Mara Liasson reports from the White House that the Clinton Administration is offering what it calls unwavering support for the new Rapid Reaction Force in Bosnia. National Security Advisor Anthony Lake says the multi-national force is an important factor in keeping the United Nations in place in the former Yugoslavia.(4:00) 12. SERBS IN SARAJEVO -- Mike O'Connor reports from Sarajevo on the Serbs who have remained behind in the city under the Muslim-led Bosnian government. They stayed behind to be part of what was once a cosmopolitan, tolerant city with its diverse population of Croats, Muslims and Serbs. Now, the Sarajevo Serbs feel caught between the guns of the Bosnian Serbs and what they say is the unequal treatment of the Bosnian government.(8:00) 2B CUTAWAY2 0:59 13. SINKING FECES - NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have a new theory to explain what triggered the 'Cambrian Explosion' -- an ancient proliferation of new animal species. A team of researchers is proposing that the development of animals that produce feces allowed oxygen levels to increase, enabling new species to develop.(4:30) 14. LACTOSE TOLORENCE - MOST adults, four-fifths of the world's adults in fact, have trouble digesting milk and dairy products. Only scandinavians and northern europeans continue to consume milk into adult life. But Patricia Neighmond reports that a new study found that many adults who say they are lactose intolerant are not consuming enough milk to cause a reaction.(3:30) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY3 0:29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2C RETURN1 0:29 NEWS2:59 NEWS1:59 CUTAWAY4 0:29 15. BLACK PANTHER MILITIA -- NPR's Edward Lifson reports from Indianapolis on a small group that believes the government is out of control and black people need to arm themselves. They're most active in the Midwest and they're not waiting any longer for racial equality. They target named officials as worthy of death. Meanwhile, local government is downnplaying their influence.(12:00) 2D CUTAWAY5 0:59 16. DOC POMUS. Noah talks with Sharyn Felder, daughter of the late hit songwriter Doc Pomus, and also with Joel Dorn, a friend of Doc's and one of the co-producers of a tribute album to Doc Pomus that has just been released. Pomus started writing songs in the 40s and many became rock and blues classics: he wrote "Lonely Avenue" which became a hit for Ray Charles; he wrote "Viva Las Vegas" which Elvis made into a hit; "Young Blood" was a hit for the Drifters. The list goes on and on. The new CD, "Till The Night Is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus" features new versions of fourteen Doc Pomus songs, including the last song he wrote before he died of lung cancer in 1991. (STATIONS NOTE: "Till The Night Is Gone: A Tribute to Doc Pomus" is a 1995 release on Rhino Records, catalog # R2 71878.)(8:00) FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY6 0:59