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Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. The adaption of "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel, will be released on June 28 in a film starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. In it, a seemy Florida politician is pitted against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. (re-broadcast from 8

2: Writer JOE KANE talks about his book "Savages." (Knopf 1995) It's his first-hand account on the confrontations between Amazonian warriors and multi-national oil companies, environmentalists and missionaries. Kane writes about the Huoarani (Wow-rahn-nee) tribe's fight for its culture and environment. Kane's earlier book "Running the Amazon" was a 1989 New York Times best-seller. (re-broadcast from 11

Excerpts from Robert Dole's campaign speech in Toledo, Ohio, twenty-four hours after he resigned his post in the Senate.

Film Critics GENE SISKEL and ROGER EBERT join Terry Gross on stage in Chicago for a "live" audience version of Fresh Air. This was recorded in February 1996. The duo began their TV collaboration in 1975 on Chicago Public Television station WTTW. After two successful seasons, the program became a national PBS show. In 1981 it moved to commercial television.Their show is now known as "Siskel and Ebert" and is heard in 180 markets. Gene Siskel is film colmnist for the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert is critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. "Siskel and Ebert" has been nominated for five national emmy awards. Ebert has recieved a Pulitzer Prize for film criticism (ORIGINAL BROADCAST 3/21/96) (CONTINUES AFTER FL

Scott remembers Judge Elbert Tuttle, who died this week.

Ellen Lockyer (LOCK-YER) of Alaska Public Radio reports on the orest fires in Alaska which have destroyed thousands of acres and caused illions of dollars in property damage.

HALFWAY DECENT JACKPOT: Essayist Tim Brookes relates the story of ne of Vermont's most eccentric entrepreneurs.

Political candidates may have four and a half months until Election Day, but already their ad money is flowing like never before, touting both national and local candidates. And there are no signs that the promotions, attacks, counter attacks, and independent advertisements are going to let up. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

Charlie Mayer reports on the 1996 Student Auto Skills National Quality Care Challenge. The Quality Care Challenge was held this past Monday on The Mall in Washington. D.C. Josh Garrison and Josh Lamb of Paris, Texas won the competition, beating forty-nine other teams from the United States and one exhibition team from Canada. The Quality Care Challenge is an annual event in which the best high school automotive technicians in the country race against the clock to repair identically "bugged" automobiles. (3:30) ((ST

Scott speaks with Brian (BREE-on) Moore, who's latest novel, "The Statement," is about the involvement of the French Catholic Church in hiding war criminals after the Second World War. (publisher: Dutton).

The international prosecutor at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague has requested arrest warrants for two Bosnian Serb Leaders. Noah talks about the evidence at the trial, and the fact that prosecutor Mark Harmon claims that these hearings are not enough. >Music 2B CUTAWAY 0:59 Music Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 14. PHILIP JOHNSON IS 90 -- Architect Philip Johnson, the man who designed the AT&T building in New York and Pennzoil Plaza in Houston, among many other buildings, is 90 today. Johnson's career has followed the evolution of architecture in this century. Critics say he has the greatest architectural presence of modern times, and that no one has known better where architecture was going decade after decade. NPR's Susan Stamberg profiles the architect.

The Supreme Court ruled today that police who search cars for evidence of a crime during traffic stops are not violating a Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The case involved two men who were convicted of drug possession when Washington, DC vice officers searched their car after stopping them for a traffic violation. In a separate decision, the Court also ruled today that even defendents who leave the country to escape criminal prosecution are entitled to challenge forfeiture of their property in court. That case involved an alleged drug dealer whose property was seized after he escaped charges by moving to Switzerland. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.