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Host Renee Montagne talks with NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing. The Chinese government is holding another person they accuse of spying for the U.S. government, and this person is an American citizen.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on closing defense statements in the trial of two Libyans charged with killing all 270 people aboard Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December of 1988. The lead defense attorney described the star prosecution witness as, 'a man who tells lies for a living.' A Scottish court is conducting the trial in the Netherlands.

Shaffy Moeel, of Youth Radio, tours South Philadelphia with one of its young residents. South Philly is traditionally Italian, famous for Italian ice and cheesesteaks.

It seems certain that New York City will have less than one thousand homicides...for the first time since 1968. Crime overall is down throughout the city...Melissa Block reports on what this drop in crime means, and how the city's police force brought about the changes.

Linda talks with U-S Capt. Hector Jamili (HA-mee-lee), a civil engineer stationed at the military complex outside Dhahran (DAH

NPR's John McChesney reports that many computers used by government and industry may stop working in the year 2000. The problem has to do with the fact that many of these computers record dates using only the last two digits of the year..and that if you enter zero zero for 2000...many of these machines will get confused.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL GOLDBERGER, CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL CORRESPONDENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, WHO RECENTLY VISITED BERLIN AND FOUND THAT 50 YEARS AFTER THAT CITY SURRENDERED TO THE ALLIES AND 5 YEARS AFTER THE BERLIN WALL CAME DOWN, THERE STILL IS A HOLE IN THE ARCHITECTURAL HEART OF BERLIN.

Classical Music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new album of opera overtures played on wind instruments, "Overture" by the Harmonie Ensemble of New York, conducted by Steve Richman (on the Music & Arts Programs of America label: 510-525-4583).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Bound by Honor," the new film directed Taylor Hackford.

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews "Nocturne Parisian," (Muse) by Graham Haynes, and "Overlays," by the Ned Rothenberg Double Band (Moers music).