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NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that National Transportation Safety Board officials say they have obtained good data from the flight recorder from ValuJet 592 recovered yesterday in the Everglades. They declined to be more specific this afternoon, saying they were still analyzing the data that will hopefully shed some light on why the DC-9 crashed three days, killing 109 people.

Neal Conan reviews the week's news with Steve Roberts of U.S. News and World Report.

Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Hudson, professor of International Relations & Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University and Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the role Syrian President Assad is now playing in the middle east. Stereo (6:30) (IN S

Guest film critic LISA SCHWARZBAUM reviews "The Truth About Cats & Dogs."

Neal speaks with Norma Arata (UH-rah-TUH), who makes and sells the authentic Kennedy rocker. Mrs. Arata's late husband, Larry, made 12 rocking chairs for President Kennedy designed to ease his back pains. Two of the rockers sold at a Sotheby's auction this week in New York. (5:00) (The Authentic Kennedy Rocker is available through Norma Arata in McLean, Virginia 703-536

Roving correspondent Bob Garfield talks about one man's dreams of cornering the aerial condom advertising market.

Daniel talks with photographer Thomas Roma who took pictures at 52 African-American Christian churches in Brooklyn - many of them storefront churches. The photographs depict congregants and pastors during sunday morning worship services. Some of these photographs are in the book, "Come Sunday:Photographs by Thomas Roma" (published by The Museum of Modern Art). The photographs are currently on dispay at The Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 18th, 1996. Included in this interview is music from two churches: Reverend Jerry Burns and the Open Door Singers (of the Open Door Outreach Ministry/Brooklyn) and The Mo Gbeke Mi Le O Choir Band (of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Olutunu/Brooklyn).

is trying to reach internationally competitive levels again. At 40, Smith has learned that patience is as important as a commitment to training.

One of the most important...and controversial...West Coast sculptors of the 1950's through the '90's (but especially the 1960's), Kienholz (pronounced KEEN-holz) created life-sized tableaux comprised of casts of human figures and real objects in various settings: "Back Seat Dodge" and "The Illegal Operation" are perhaps his best-known....not to mention most self-explanatory...titles. The first major retrospective of his work EVER is at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York city now. Karen Michel reports

Today is the day of remembrance for the lives lost in the Holocaust of World War II. In this commentary, Emily Benedek recalls meeting a Holocaust survivor and and learning her explanation for why she did not perish with so many others.

Charles Scanlon reports that early results from South Korea's parliamentary elections suggest a stronger-than-expected showing for the ruling party. However, it may still lose its majority in the National Assembly, with voters angry at what they perceive as an authoritarian style of government.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater's dog Jacques poses with the skill of a professional model for a magazine photographer.