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- Daniel speaks with Dr.Donald Murphy, who is director of a group in Colorado that is drafting guidelines for medical care. Dr.Murphy says the cost of many medical procedures make them impractical in certain situations. His group is particularly concerned about the over-use of expensive procedures in cases where the patient has very little chance of survival. Despite the controversy surrounding his work, Dr.Murphy argues that American society must face economic realities and practice medicine accordingly.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that one of Japan's biggest companies is implicated in a growing scandal involving copper trading. Investigators in Britain and the United States are looking into whether the company may have approved of the actions of its star trader to allegedly hoard copper to help drive up its price.

NPR's Anne Garrels attends a high school graduation in Moscow nd reports on the differences between graduates today from those ten and twenty years ago.

Scott remembers Judge Elbert Tuttle, who died this week.

Scott talks with New Age guru Marianne Williamson, who defends her philosophy against attacks by the media in the wake of disclosures that First Lady Hillary Clinton has been consulting New Age psychologists and holding imaginary conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Scott speaks with Brian (BREE-on) Moore, who's latest novel, "The Statement," is about the involvement of the French Catholic Church in hiding war criminals after the Second World War. (publisher: Dutton).

- NPR film critic Bob Mondello traces Hollywood's view of the American Presidency. Hollywood has always been fascinated by power, says Mondello, and has the most fun with presidents it makes up.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls. Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. CHINA DISSIDENT -- Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jenn-DREEZ-sick), the Washington Director of Human Rights Watch-Asia. Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai (WAHNG dong-HY) after he and six other activists petitioned the National People's Congress on May 27th, demanding the release of political prisoners. Mr. Jendrzejczyk believes that paranoia in the Chinese government toward the democracy movement has increased in recent months as economic reforms have triggered more unrest. This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.

Noah talks to Matt Wald, aviation correspondent for the New York Times, about developments in the investigation of the causes of the crash of Valujet Flight 592. Investigators are now looking at the possibility that oxygen generators were mislabeled or mishandled and caused the fire on board the aircraft.

Linda talks with Tom Boatner (BOHT-nur), a firejumper from the Bureau of Land Management based in Fairbanks, Alaska. Right now he's in Houston (HYOO-stun), Alaska. As many as 100 homes and an estimated 7,000 acres have burned in this fire which is believed to have started on Sunday. More than 300 firefighters, supported by firefighting aircraft, are now working to contain the blaze which is being fueled by forty mile-per-hour winds.