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NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.

SIMON/PLANT: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH TIMOTHY WALKER, DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND WHERE, A RARE TROPICAL PLANT RECENTLY BLOOMED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS.

SCOTT SIMON COMMENTS ON HOW 200 CONGRESSPEOPLE, WHO USUALLY ARE BIG ON DEFICIT REDUCTION, ASKED THE BI-PARTISAN COMMISSION ON THE FATE OF U.S MILITARY BASES TO SPARE MILITARY INSTALLATION IN THEIR STATES.

For centuries people have been cutting single pages out of are manuscripts for profit. The trade of the panel paintings and miniatures on hese pages is causing alarm among the curators and researchers who maintain and se libraries and archives. David D'Arcy reports from New York that this age-old ct of vandalism is still ruining priceless works of art.

ON THIS DAY IN 1979, PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS "MALAISE" SPEECH. TODAY, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH HENDRIK HERTZBERG, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, WHO WAS MR. CARTER'S PRINCIPAL SPEECHWRITER IN 1979 AND DRAFTED THAT SPEECH AND WHO NOW CONFIRMS A MISQUOTATION.

SARAJEVO: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE O'CONNOR IN SARAJEVO ABOUT THE LATEST BOSNIAN SERB ATTACKS ON U.N. "SAFE" AREAS.

LIGHTNING: Host Liane Hansen talks with Harold Deal of Greenwood, outh Carolina. Mr. Deal is a participant in the fifth annual "Lightning Strike nd Electric Shock Victims International Convention" being held this weekend in ettysburg, Pennsylvania.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the history of the entiment, "nuke 'em", and how often the U.S. has come close to using nuclear eapons since the end of the second world war.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & SHAY STEVENS

Host Liane Hansen continues her onversation with Sadako Ogata (sah-DA-koh oh-GAH-tah), the United Nations High ommissioner for Refugees. This week they focus their discussion on the recent eturn of more than 1,000 Rwandan refugees. They also consider other current esponsibilites of the UNHCR, which provides assistance for the world's 27 illion refugees.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH IVANA KUHAR (eeVON-uh KOO-har), CHIEF OF THE CROATIAN SERVICE AT THE VOICE OF AMERICA, ABOUT THE VOA'S NEWLY LAUNCHED HOTLINE TO HELP REFUGEES FIND THEIR LOVED ONES IN THE WAR-RAVAGED BALKANS.

NPR'S CHERYL DEVALL REPORTS ON CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN MEL REYNOLDS' CONVICTION THIS WEEK ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE DERIVING FROM HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AN UNDERAGE YOUNG WOMAN, AND HOW THIS WILL AFFECT HIS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT.