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on crime in post-Apartheid South Africa and what's being done about it... Today, she visits the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, where young black residents have joined forces with white police to catch criminals. It's an unusual alliance between those who fought to overthrow Apartheid and those who fought to protect it. Soweto and the other black townships surrounding Johannesburg have a murder rate three times higher than that of New York City.

Mike Lanchin reports from El Salvador that prisoners in one of the country's jails have chosen, by lottery, four fellow inmates to be killed unless the government agrees to improve conditions by next Monday. Problems at the Santa Ana prison are the same as those in jails across El Salvador: jails are filled way beyond capacity, there is not enough food or sleeping space, and many inmates have not even been charged with a crime, let alone tried. A member of El Salvador's Supreme Court has suggested an amnesty for all those charged with minor crimes. The Salvadoran legislature is expected to discuss the crisis today.

Robert talks with Kenneth Crutchlow about his friend Peter Bird. Bird was the first to row a boat solo across the Pacific Ocean, and during another recent attempt, Bird went missing, and is now presumed dead. A German sea captain has reported finding the remains of the boat about 900 miles off the coast of Japan. It appears there was a freak accident -- a log floating in the sea crashed into Bird's boat and destroyed it.

Former U.S. Senator GEORGE MCGOVERN. He has a new book called "Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism." (Villard) After a night of drinking in December of 1994, Terry was found dead in a parking lot near her home in Madison, Wisconsin. Terry's addiction plagued her almost her entire life, despite countless efforts at rehabilitation. The book draws upon Terry's letters and journals, interviews with loved ones, and medical and police records. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

NPR's Eric Weiner visits the West Bank city of Hebron to gauge reaction there to yet another missed deadline for a withdrawal of most of the Israeli troops from the city, as called for under the Oslo Agreement. Israeli troops were to have withdrawn in March, but the government of outgoing Prime Minister Peres (PERR-es) postponed the withdrawal after suicide bombings in March. A second deadline came and went today, and tensions are rising in the city, with Israeli settlers calling for the redeployment to be postponed indefinitely. Palestinians are warning of another intifada if the troops don't leave soon.

is investigating the Clinton administration's review of FBI files on Republicans back in 1993. President Clinton said yesterday that collecting the files had been an honest mistake, and that he would never condone or tolerate an enemies list.

suggesting the universe will expand indefinitely, and as the stars burn out, it will end in a whimper rather than a bang.

This week marks marks National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Across the country, the U-S Postal Service and the Humane Society have teamed up to talk about the seriousness of dog bites and to teach dog owners how to prevent attacks. Today in Falls Church, Virginia, letter carriers talked about their experiences with dogs and dog bites.

Who decides what's conservative and what's not? Commentator Mickey Edwards says this year it's the real conservatives who will make the decisions for the party .... instead of those intolerant self-proclaimed conservatives who've been speaking for the rest of the party.

An immigration appeals panel has granted asylum to a woman who fears she will be subject to genital mutilation if she returns to her home in Togo. The 19-year-old woman fled the West African country in 1994 and was detained in jails in the U-S until last month. An immigration judge had rejected her asylum claim in August, 1995, saying female genital mutilation would not count as persecution against her because it was done to her peers. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater tells about his wife, who recently offered to illustrate one of his children's stories. He talks about her skill, and how he's getting used to the idea of how good she really is at the work.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on budget cuts and their effect on City University of New York, once commonly called the poor man's Harvard. Big cuts and rising tuition have made it more difficult for the mostly working-class student body.