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Liane Hansen visits the AIDS quilt on display this weekend in ashington D.C. We hear from several visitors, who tell us why they came to see he quilt. The quilt, which carries some 70,000 names, stretches over one mile n the Washington Mall, from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol uilding.

Ed O'Loughlin reports from Johannesburg that former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and other former police officials were acquitted of murder charges today. Malan was the most senior member of the old apartheid government to stand trial for human rights abuses, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and fifteen co-defendants of the 1987 death squad killing of a family. The ruling angered many who had fought white minority rule, while former apartheid officials praised it as a vindication.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says businesses use all kinds of terms these days to describe cash demands. Not only is there a "shelf-space slotting fee" that food manufacturers pay to grocery retailers for prime shelf placement, and publishers pay "display fees" to book chains for prime window and floor spaces. Jennings says that whatever the fees are called, she thinks they're just bribes.

Linda talks to Patricia Wells-- author of a new cookbook called "PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE." It is a book of recipes inspired by her famouhouse in France. Wells encourages cooks to use fresh ingredients and not to muck it all up. If you're cooking eggplant - she says - it should taste like eggplant!

2: BEN KINGSLEY. He is the British actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film, "Ghandi." He's also known for his roles in "Bugsy," Schindler's List," "Sneakers," "Dave" "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "Species," and many more movies as well as plays. Kingsley was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court in London and the National Theatre. His new film is "Twelfth Night."

JAPAN ELECTION: NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on preliminary results rom Parlimentary elections in Japan.

Tomorrow, Election Day, political races across the country will be decided and many more local propositions will be placed before the voters for ratification. Public attention has been focused on just a few of them. Robert and Linda talk about aspects of the election season that have escaped widespread public notice: a candidate for the Colorado state senate who has thrown her support behind her opponent; a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey who does not speak English, and others.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the threat posed to Haiti's fragile democracy by thousands of disgruntled former soldiers. There have been attacks against government targets by soldiers who are without jobs or money, and several former members of the military have been arrested on suspicion of plotting against the government of president Rene Preval.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that two weeks after the revived Palestinianian-Israeli peace talks began with promises of around-the-clock negotiations with a US negotiator, the talks have now stalled and the US mediator, Dennis Ross, has decided to fly home. Israelis blame Palestinians and the Palestinians blame the Israelis.

At least twenty people have been killed in a Taleban missile attack in Afghanistan...all of them civilians. The attack coincided with attempts by anti-Taleban sympathizers to oust Taleban forces from a mountain pass outside Kabul. The BBC's Monica Whitlock reports.

, best known for their kitchen appliances and outdoor gas grills. The company seems to be on the road to recovery thanks to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, a flamboyant chief executive known for rescuing ailing corporations. Sunbeam plans to cut its workforce in half, from twelve down to six thousand, and drop most of its ancillary product line.

the latest in the investigation of yesterday's mid-air collision between two airliners over Delhi.