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NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has gone to court to force Chrysler to recall 91,000 cars. Federal officials say that rear seat belts in the cars are unsafe, but Chrysler has resisted the recall, saying there's no problem. This is the first time an automaker has resisted federal requests for a voluntary recall.

of how it acquiesced to the Croatian government's plans to smuggle Iranian arms to Bosnia two years ago. Appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said the Administration took the best available option in its response to Croatia, and that it in no way constituted a covert action.

Robert talks to 2 former students of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; Elizabeth Eckford and Kendall Rhinehart. Eckford, a Black woman, was one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated the school in 1957. Rhinehart is a white man who was among the few who treated her as an equal in the classroom. They recall the harassment that they both withstood, and reflect on the ways their friends and families reacted at the time. The two have been reunited as part of a student history project.

A study released today suggests that the risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus through oral sex may be higher than previously realized. The study, being published in the journal Science, found that monkeys exposed orally to the monkey equivalent of the AIDS virus became infected surprisingly easily. Experts say that while transmission of the AIDS virus through oral sex is probably relatively rare, the findings underscore the need to practice safe sex. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

on the showdown that's expected at the Republican convention in August over the issue of abortion. Several Republican governors already have promised they will fight to keep anti-abortion language out of the party platform. But Patrick Buchanan and his followers have threatened to walk out of the convention or even launch a third party candidacy, if the platform does not include a strong stand against abortion.

Commentator Andrei Condrescu is upset about the service he gets on airplanes these days. In the last few years he has been delayed, starved, squeezed, and subjected to bad jokes during air travel.

about the resignation of the Turkish Prime Minister.

Commentator Mike Thoele (TAY-lee) waits for the call in the night from his daughter or son, telling him they are off to fight yet another Western fire. Both are members of elite groups of firefighters -- the daughter is a smokejumper and the son is on a "hot shot" crew. Each summer they join 50,000 other seasonal firefighters in what Thoele calls "a summer rite of passage."

In the first of two reports, NPR's Michael Skoler reports on the escalating ethnic violence in the central African nation of Burundi. The United Nations is worried that fighting between the minority Tutsis and majority Hutus could erupt into the sort of mass killing that gripped neighboring Rwanda two years ago. A weak coalition government has been unable to stop the violence, as the Tutsi-dominated army battles Hutu rebels. Many average Burundians are losing hope that their political leaders can find a way out of the conflict.

NPR's Melissa Block profiles the New York Police Department's new cold case squad, set up this past February to investigate unsolved homicides. So far, they've closed 27 cases. Some of the work involves tracking down known fugitives, trying to figure out where they've gone. And for those cases WITHOUT a known perpetrator, the detectives start from scratch: lots of phone work, knocking on doors, digging around. The head of the unit calls it the "purest police work you can do."