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NPR'S Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stad) reports that the Cambodian government says it has sent troops to help the Khmer Rouge breakaway faction retake a village it lost yesterday to hardline members of the group. This caused hundreds of Khmer Rouge soldiers and civilians to flee into Thailand.

The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports on the slaughter of 200 elephants at a salt marsh in the Congo. Although elephant poaching decreased after harvesting ivory was banned by international agreement, the world's shrinking stocks of ivory are making poaching increasingly profitable.

President Clinton, yesterday, campaigned in the South. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

- Host Cory Flintoff speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb, who is in northern Iraq in the aftermath of Iraqi forces' move into the region. Goldfarb says Iraqi forces are dug into position just inside the Kurdish safe-haven zone and that United Nations officials are concerned about Turkish plans to establish a security zone in another portion of northern Iraq near the Turkish border

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Turkey on new government efforts to shift policy toward the Kurds. A 12-year-long battle with Kurdish insurgents has created millions of homeless refugees...most of them are pouring into Turkish cities. Although the new pro-Islamic government is trying to return these refugees to their homes, the Kurds are suspicious.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.

Playwright NEIL SIMON. His plays and movies include, "Barefoot in the Park," "The Odd Couple," "The Goodbye Girl," "The Out-of-Towners," and "The Sunshine Boys." He won a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Lost in Yonkers." He has a new memoir, "Rewrites" (published by Simon & Schuster). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

about the many open congressional races and how they might affect the fall elections.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton today addressed the delegates of the National Baptist Convention in Orlando, as he began the second day of a two-day campaign swing through Florida, a state he hopes to win in November. He talked to the crowd about new Labor Department figures showing the lowest unemployment rate in seven years, but also asked the church representatives to offer jobs to people trying to get off welfare.

ERIC LOMAX was captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was used as forced labor to help build the Burma-Siam railroad. He was also tortured by the Japanese. He has reconciled with the Japanese intepreter present during his beatings. His book The Railway Man: A P.O.W.'s Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness (W.W. Norton & Company 1995,) chronicles his story from WWII and his life 50 years later. The BBC is expected to make a movie from his book "Railway Man." And Ballentine will release "Railway Man" out on paperback this month.

Scott speaks with Octavio Roca, music and dance critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. Twenty-five years ago the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington D-C opened. Mr. Roca was a student at the time, and remembers that event.

Budapest's renovated Dohany Street Synagogue reopened yesterday after five years of renovation. It is Europe's largest synagogue. In 1989 commentator Andrei Codrescu visited the house of worship, quite by accident, and wrote an essay from there about how moved he was by the service. He says he has roots on his mother's side in the culture and could feel the emotional tie.