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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PETER HILLMORE, A COLUMNIST FOR BRITAIN'S OBSERVER NEWSPAPER, ABOUT THE MAXWELL TRIAL, NOW RIVALING OUR O.J. TRIAL, IN LONDON. THE FOUR DEFENDANTS, TWO OF THEM THE SONS OF THE LATE MEDIA MAGNATE ROBERT MAXWELL WHO DISAPPEARED OVERBOARD FROM HIS YACHT OFF THE CANARY ISLANDS IN NOVEMBER OF 1991, HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY USING EMPLOYEE PENSION FUNDS TO SHORE UP THE FAILING MAXWELL PUBLISHING EMPIRE.

Host Daniel Zwerdling talks with Lyman Kellstedt, professor of political science at Wheaton College, and Diane Winston, from the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University, about President Clinton's recent remarks about religion, and about how an increasingly religious electorate may affect the outcome of future political contests.

SCOTT SIMON AND JOHN B. ANDERSON, WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT AS AN INDEPENDENT CNDIDATE IN 1980 AND NOW TEACHES LAW AT SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY N FT. LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, TALK ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF THE THIRD PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa visits sidewalk vendors of tropical drinks in New York City. Summer refreshers like sugar cane juice and fresh coconut milk over ice are popular with kids and adults, Latinos and Anglos.

A LEGAL BATTLE OVER THE ESTATE OF ROCK GUITARIST JIMI HENDRIX CAME TO AN END YESTERDAY (FRIDAY 7/28) WITH THE SIGNING OF A LEGAL SETTLEMENT THAT RETURNS ALL OF THE RIGHTS TO HENDRIX'S MUSIC TO HIS FATHER. ROBERT SMITH, OF MEMBER STATION KUOW, REPORTS FROM HENDRIX'S HOMETOWN, SEATTLE.

LINGUAL COPS - NPR's Vickey Que reports on Philadelphia's effort to curb Asian gang violence by using police officers who speak Asian languages.

Michael talks with Martin Walker, Washington bureau chief of the British newspaper The Guardian, about America's image in Europe. Europe wants to be led, says Walker, and America is dropping the ball.

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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Dr. Lou Friedman, Executive irector of the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, about the future of pace exploration. They discuss the results of this month's Atlantis/Mir docking ission, and explore how the benefits of the recent joint space venture will ltimately affect upcoming missions and future goals in space. Dr. Friedman says manned mission to Mars could occur within the next 15 year

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH EMINENT VIOLINIST AND CONDUCTOR DMITRY SITKOVETSKY, WHOSE TRANSCRIPTION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - ARIA WITH 30 VARIATIONS," INITIALLY COMPOSED FOR THE HARPSICHORD, INTO A WORK FOR A STRING ORCHESTRA CAN BE HEARD ON THE NEW CD "GOLDBERG VARIATIONS," PERFORMED BY THE NEW EUROPEAN STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AVAILABLE ON NONESUCH RECORDS.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including music from the Nathan Hale Fife and Drum Corp in hiladelphia on Independence Day; Mark Mastrangelo, the town crier of hiladelpia, at the Fourth of July celebration; Jack Lombard of Greensville, orth Carolina commenting on the amount of barbequed ham and chicken sold on the oliday; a Kennedy Space Center spokeperson describing the landing of the tlantis space shuttle after it's docking with the Russian Mir spacecraft; resident Clinton speaking about political civility; Judge Lance Ito and Marcia lark putting the prosecution to rest at the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI REPORTS FROM BELGRADE THAT WITH THE GROUND SITUATION IN BOSNIA WORSENING, ATTENTION IS NOW FOCUSED ON WHAT BELGRADE MAY DO.