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Yesterday President Clinton issued an executive order that established the first uniform standards for U.S. agencies in granting security clearances to employees. Among the directives was an order to end the denial of security clearances because an applicant is gay. Daniel talks to Frank Kameny, who was denied government security clearances in the 1950s and 60s and was the first person to fight a discharge from a federal civil service job because of his homosexuality.

WHILE THE FATE OF TWO FORMER FOLLOWERS OF THE LATE BAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, THE FLAMBOUYANT MYSTIC WHO ATTEMPTED TO CREAT A UTOPIAN COMMUNE IN THE HIGH DESERT OF OREGON FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, HAS BEEN DETERMINED, HAVING BEEN CONVICTED YESTERDAY OF CONSPIRING TO KILL A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IN 1985, THE FUTURE OF THE RAJNEESH FACILITY IS YET UNKNOWN. FROM ANTELOPE, OREGON, LEY GARNETT REPORTS.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Daniel talks with the assistant city editor of the Chicago Tribune, Bill Rectenwald, about the heat wave in Chicago and the recent deaths there. Rectenwald says the temperatures are in the triple digits and police are mobilizing to insure the sick and elderly survive and to avoid the large number of deaths that occured earlier this month. Rectenwald says though such intense heat is not unusual in other states, Chicagoans are unaccustomed to such extreme temperatures.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S INA JAFFE REPORTS ON THE TWO-WEEK CROSS COUNTRY TOUR OF MORE THAN 200 WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT KNOW AS "FREEDOM FLIGHT AMERICA," A COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Carl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun about a ew issues in the news this past week, including the Congressional hearings on oth the Whitewater affair and the government raid on the Branch Davidian ompound in Waco, Texas; plus, President Clinton's public support of affirmative ction, and the the increased involvement of the United States in the Bosnian onflict.

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: NORA RAUM & MICHAEL LELAND

The rapid spread of gambling casinos throughout the United tates is threatening the survival of the horse racing industry. NPR's Don onyea reports on the various ways race track owners are trying to bring ustomers back to their venues.

Liane Hansen talks with biographers Judith and Neil organ about children's book author Ted Geisel (GUY-zell). Under the pseudonym Dr.Seuss," (SOOS) Geisel wrote such classics as THE CAT IN THE HAT, GREEN EGGS ND HAM, and HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. The Morgan's new book about his ife and work is titled, DR. SEUSS AND MR. GEISEL: A BIOGRAPHY (Random House ooks).