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Liane speaks with author, military historian, advisor to -S intelligence and spy specialist H. Keith Melton. He demonstrates items from is vast collection of spy paraphernalia. Many are featured in his publication, The Ultimate Spy Book", (DK Publishing).

NPR's Mike Shuster previews the upcoming Russian lections.

free tolls when traffic backs up, and starting Monday -- a 65 Miles-per-hour speed limit on parts of the thruway to the New York border.

From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

Host Liane Hansen discusses the news of the week with larence Page, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune. Among the topics: he Clinton administration's response to a series of arson attacks on black hurches in the south, charges of questionable financial dealings against enator Alfonse D'Amato, who's leading a Senate inquiry into Whitewater and the ailed initiative by the President and House speaker Newt Gingrich to set a ommission on campaign finance reform.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including New York politician Mark Green, President Bill Clinton, ark Logan of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and White House ress Secretary Mike McCurry.

One aspect of campaigning that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has mastered is his ability to find some personal link to just about every place he visits. Either he was stationed there as a young military officer or he recuperated there after his war injury. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold gives examples from recent Dole campaign trips of this age-old political technique for connecting with voters.

A church service is held every Sunday in a junk yard on Chicago's South Side. The preacher is 82, the services are non-denominational, and the congregation is made up of the homeless as well as customers and employees of the junk yard. NPR'S Edward Lifson reports that those who attend the services say they don't need a pristine setting or a church to find God. (8:00) (IN S

Robert talks about the three-year-old Rottweiler, "Gator," who found the last survivor in the bombed Oklahoma City Federal building. Gator recently died after a fall in his owner's back yard.

MOE TUCKER, drummer for The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed''s band that won cult status in the mid-70s. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 10

2: Musician JOHN CALE was the violist, keyboardist and bassist of the 60's avante garde band, The Velvet Underground. Since the breakup of the group in 1968, JOHN CALE has had a career as a solo artist. In 1990, he collaborated with former Velvet Underground member Lou Reed, on "Songs for Drella," a tribute to artist Andy Warhol. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 8/1/94) MOE TUCKER, drummer for The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's band that won cult status in the mid-70s. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 10