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Singer and performer TINY TIM. He died over the weekend of heart failure. He was 64. Born Herbert B. Khaury, TIM began performing in the 1950s. He was best known for his performances on Laugh-In, especially his croonings of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips." Earlier this year TINY TIM released the album "Girl" (Rounder) in conjunction with the band Brave Combo, a Texas world beat polka band who began working on the project with the eccentric Tiny Tim eight years ago. The CD featured many familiar tunes (including "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Hey Jude" and even "Stairway to Heaven") like they've never been performed before. (REBROADCAST from 6

From Los Angeles, NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on an unusual American success story in cracking the Japanese automobile market: Latino business people are exporting to Japan the American automotive icon known as the low-rider -- those souped-up hot rods with hydraulic suspensions and low-riding profiles. Del Barco reports that the low-riders, immortalized in films and rap music, have captured the imaginations of the Japanese, who are willing to pay big bucks for the customized cars.

FOLKSBIENE: The Folksbiene (FOKES-bee-nah) Playhouse is the ountry's oldest and only Yiddish theater company. As part of the American alkers series, we hear from the company's president, 102-year old Morris Adler, nd leading actress Zypora Spaisman (zah-POOR-ah SPIZE-mahn). (The Folksbiene heater is located in Manhattan at 123 E 55 St.; 212-755-2231.)

This month's Teen Diary is from 18 year-old Melissa Rodriguez. Melissa grew up in foster care. Now she lives with her infant son in New Haven, Connecticut. Through a state-run program, Melissa is able to go to school, hold a part time job and live semi-independently.

which the state of Florida will try to help resolve. At Miami's request, Governor Lawton Chiles has sent advisors to assist the city to bring the budget into balance, as required by state law. Miami faces a $68-million shortfall in the current year.

where Serbian authorities have closed down the country's only remaining independent radio station.

for major parts of development work on its enlarged 747 jumbo jets... these new planes are designed to carry more than 500 people farther than any current plane.

reluctance to intervene in the country's problems.

Robert talks with NPR's Ann Cooper, who's in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, about the uncertainty surrounding the number and whereabouts of the refugees who remain stranded in Zaire. Relief groups generally agree that there are several hundred thousand people still in need of food and water, but they don't really know how many there are, or where they are. One United Nations agency today said it has information that at least one hundred thousand refugees are on the move towards Goma, Zaire, the site of last weekend's mass return to Rwanda of approximately a half-million people.

Phyllis Joffe reports on a program that has been teaching children in impoverished neighborhoods in Pittsburgh how to work with ceramics. The program, now thirty years old, has grown to beome one of the country's most successful art centers and a model for community development. (12:00) (S

Jeff Barry of member station KCLU in Thousand Oaks, California, reports on the giant wildfire in Big Sur. While the fire is mostly contained, authorities say they expect it to consume at least twenty thousand acres before it's completely extinguished.

of an upcoming meeting between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow in Cairo.