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President Clinton was in Greeleyville, South Carolina today to visit the place where an African-American church was burned down last year. He also went to the site of the new Mount Zion AME Church, where he called on all Americans to help put an end to the recent string of church fires. We'll hear excepts from his speech.

for parties to present their final lists of candidates running in the September election. The big question is the status of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

As the 11th International AIDS Conference convenes in Vancouver, British Columbia, scientists report that they now understand better how HIV causes AIDS. Recently approved drug therapies, combining old anti-viral drugs and the new protease (pro-TEE-ase) inhibitors, have been successful in reducing the amount of virus in the blood. The health of people with the AIDS virus has improved -- they gain weight, some skin rashes disappear and their energy returns. A source says the new treatments may not be a cure...but they're the next best thing. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

Robert talks to Robert Gates, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from November of 1991 to January of 1993. He has written the new book "From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War." Gates says that many foreign policy decisions that are credited to Ronald Reagan, including supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, were actually policies secretly started by Jimmy Carter.

The Supreme Court ruled today that police who search cars for evidence of a crime during traffic stops are not violating a Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The case involved two men who were convicted of drug possession when Washington, DC vice officers searched their car after stopping them for a traffic violation. In a separate decision, the Court also ruled today that even defendents who leave the country to escape criminal prosecution are entitled to challenge forfeiture of their property in court. That case involved an alleged drug dealer whose property was seized after he escaped charges by moving to Switzerland. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast on the opening day of multi-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland. The first day did not go well. The unionists who want to stay as part of Great Britain threatened to walk out...and the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, Sinn Fein (SHIN FAYN), was not allowed into the talks because the I-R-A has not re-instated a cease-fire, which was suspended earlier this year.

Robert talks with Jim Burnett, the former chair of the National Transportation and Safety Board (1991), about ways the Federal Aviation Administration could improve commercial airline safety. Burnett is now a transportation consultant in Clinton, Arkansas.

Charlie Mayer reports on the 1996 Student Auto Skills National Quality Care Challenge. The Quality Care Challenge was held this past Monday on The Mall in Washington. D.C. Josh Garrison and Josh Lamb of Paris, Texas won the competition, beating forty-nine other teams from the United States and one exhibition team from Canada. The Quality Care Challenge is an annual event in which the best high school automotive technicians in the country race against the clock to repair identically "bugged" automobiles. (3:30) ((ST

about last night's results at the olympic Track and Field trials. Carl Lewis qualified for his fifth Olympic Games... an unprecedented accomplishment for a male U.S. track and field athlete.

Today in Phoenix, Arizona in a community college gymnasium, 4-hundred 50 people are gathering to be sworn in as American citizens. Robert talks with Sadir (SAH-deer) Hamati (HA-ma-tee), a native of Jordan, about what it means for him to become an American citizen. Mr. Hamati came to the United States 10 years ago and now lives in Phoenix.