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NPR's Joe Neel reports that the Food and Drug Administration today released statements from three former Phillip Morris employees. The FDA says the statement support the agency's contention that tobacco companies purposefully manipulate the nicotine in cigarettes to keep smokers addicted. The FDA has proposed widening its jurisdiction over tobacco products to try to keep young people from smoking.

The United Auto Workers strike at two General Motors parts plants in Dayton, Ohio continues...as do talks between the union and the automaker. All of G-M's assembly plants in the United States have been closed due to the strike. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on how Dayton and surrounding communities hav been affected by the strike.

An audio postcard from Charlie Mayer. Some students at Swarthmore College have taken their drumming class (Rhythmic Analysis) to the forest behind the school, to welcome the new season with sound. (2:00) (IN S

Robert talks with David Filipov (FIL-i-pov), Moscow correspondent for the Boston Globe, about the Russian parliament's vote to annul the breakup of the former Soviet Union. Filipov says the vote has angered President Boris Yeltsin, who has accused his political opponents in parliament of trying to block Russia's presidential elections in June.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the new requirement that lawyers register with Congress if they act as lobbyists. Previous regulations that required lobbyists to register had exempted lawyers because of the attorney-client confidentiality privilege. Today, a report on those who have registered reveals client lists and other details the attorneys would have preferred not to reveal.

A visit to one of the center's of African filmmaking - Ouaguadougou [wah-gah-DOO-goo] in the West African state of Burkina Faso. Though the city hosts one of the largest film festivals in the world, the government of Burkina Faso can only finance one or two films a year. Jennifer Ludden reports that's typical on a continent where, like everywhere else, American action flicks dominate.

Michael Radford is an English director whose film, Il Postino, made in Italy, has been nominated for five Academy Awards. Radford talks to Robert about directing a film in a foreign language, and the different approaches in making AIDS commericals in England and France.

Linda talks to London Times crime correspondent Scott Tindler, who is covering events in Dunblane. Tindler says such crimes are much less common in Britain than they are in the United States, largely because of the U.K.'s restrictive gun laws.

Twelve days ago citizens of Weyauwega, [wy-uh-WEE-guh] Wisconsin were evacuated from their homes following the derailment of railroad cars carrying fourteen propane tankers. Wisconsin Public Radio's Gil Halsted reports on life at a hotel where more than fifty evacuated families have been staying.

Robert talks to Seymour Martin Lipset, author of "American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword." (W.W. Norton & Company) Lipset says that many of the characteristics that Alexis de Tocqueville described as uniquely American still exist in our society today and continue to make the United States different from other countries. But Lipset notes these characteristics have a negative side, too.