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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FRANK BEACHEM, A WRITER WHO GREW UP IN HONEA (HUN-nee-uh) PATH, SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE, IN SEPTEMBER OF 1934, STRIKING UNION COTTON MILL WORKERS GATHERED FOR A RALLY AT THE CHIQUOLA (sheh-KO-lah) MILL. A BLOODY CONFRONTATION RESULTED, 7 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, 17 WERE INJURED, AND THE STRIKE WAS BROKEN. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS TO MR. BEACHAM ABOUT A REVELATION THAT CONNECTS HIM TO THE SHOOTING AND ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY "THE UPRISING OF '34) BY GEORGE STONEY, JUDITH HELFAND AND SUSANNE ROSTOCK, WHICH WILL BE AIRED ON MONDAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HONEA PATH AND ON PUBLIC TELEVISION'S DOCUMENTARY SERIES P.O.V. ON JUNE 27, 1995.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Kobe Japan. She follows around police officials who are helping people cope with this weeks devastating earthquake.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead reports that it's been nearly a year after the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam has been lifted. One of the more unusual new joint ventures has been the importation of Holstein cows.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE SUGGESTION FROM SOME REPUBLICANS THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR HELP TO DEFRAY SOME OF THE COSTS OF WELFARE REFORM. SHE VISITS SOME CATHOLIC-RUN CHARITIES' PROGRAMS -- AMONG THE BIGGEST PRIVATE PROGRAMS -- AND FINDS THAT, THERE, GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IS ALSO LARGE.

Jacki talks to Rolling Stone editor Anthony DeCurtis about the new CD by Throwing Muses, "University." DeCurtis says that Throwing Muses was a precursor to the group of young bands led by women that have recently become popular. There are a lot of nonnarrative lyrics in the songs by the bandleader, Kristin Hersh, who uses the voices of her children and the ocean in some of the compositions.

THE EIGHT-DAY SUMMIT MEETING HELD BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN ENDED AT THE SMALL CRIMEAN RESORT TOWN OF YALTA 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. NPR'S ANDY BOWERS PREPARED THIS REPORT.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.