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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the continuing fighting Liberia.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that since the execution last November of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-wiwa [seh-roh-WEE-wah], the US has been talking about what other measures it could take to put pressure on the Nigerian government. There is some support in Congress for more moves against Nigeria's military rulers, but President Clinton does not appear willing to push for the sanction that would hurt the most: an oil embargo.

Noah talks to Prof. Thomas Emmel at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who on Monday will release 800 rare Schaus Swllowtails butterflies into the wild. Emmel started breeding the butterflies in his kitchen in 1992 when the population of the butterflies had been reduced to only 17.

NPR's translator and driver in Sarajevo, Miro Tadich, reflects on how life has changed there with the coming of peace.

In his speech at Princeton University today, President Clinton proposed a tax credit of $1500 per year for college tuition for full time college students. Robert talks to John Hammang, Director of State and Campus Relations for the American Assocation of State Colleges and Universities about the effects of the proposed tax break on college tuitions and what makes college tuitions so high in the first place.

Over a million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year. But there is no consensus over what should be done, or what to tell young people to keep them from becoming sexually active or getting pregnant at an early age. NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports from North Carolina that each community in that state gets to decide whether to encourage teens to abstain or to give them as much information as possible about sex and contraceptives.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Cambridge, MA on a plan to integrate school children by income level in addition to race.

Linda Gradstein reports on today's talks between Israelis and alestinians on the futures of Jerusalem and the formal Palestinian state, as ell as Palestinian access to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

AVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dead Man''s Walk" the TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry''s novel which will be shown on ABC on Sunday night. INT. 1: LARRY MC MURTRY is considered one of Texas'' most prominent fiction writers even though he has not lived in that state for nearly two decades. Over his career, he has written 19 novels...including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Lonesome Dove". His newest "Dead Man''s Walk" (Simon & Schuster 1995) takes readers to the early days of his "Lonesome Dove" heroes Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. "Dead Man''s Walk" premieres this Sunday on ABC. (REBROADCAST from 11/22/95)INT. 2: Biographer LAURENCE BERGREEN. Saturday May 11 is the 108th anniversary of Irving Berlin''s birthday. Bergreen''s biography of Berlin, entitled "As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin" , was first published in 1990 and re-issued in paperback (Da Capo Press) in 1996. (REBROADCAST from 6/26/90)REV. : LISA SCHWARTZBAUM reviews "Twoster"

JET CRASH - NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the crash today of a Value-Jet airliner en route from Miami to Atlanta. The jet crashed in the Florida everglades not long after takeoff. 109 people were on board. There are no signs of survivors.

Commentator Jerry Landay teaches "issues in television" at the University of Illinois. He examines the use of paid political commercials. Paying for these spots is prohibitively expensive and means that some candidates, like those for state offices, spend all their time fundraising instead of pressing the flesh and talking about issues. The networks handing free time to presidential candidates is a step in the right direction, but that does nothing to help the little guy out there running for the state legislature.

Commentator Sam Fulwood says the fight in Prince George's County, Maryland over inviting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to speak to an eighth-grade class is a public spectacle of official cowardice, racial politics and divisive posturing. He claims it is a sad example of how race is discussed and used in this country.