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HOST ALEX CHADWICK TALKS WITH DR. JANE GOODALL, WHO HAS BEEN CALLED THE "PATRON SAINT OF CHIMPANZEES," ABOUT HER LIFE AND HER WORK. (JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE - 1-800-592-JANE - BOX 599, RIDGEFIELD, CT. 06877)

Novelist THOMAS KENEALLY. He's best known for his novel, Schindler's List which was put to film, by director Stephen Spielberg. His new novel, A River Town (Doubleday) is based on the story of his grandfather who left Ireland for Australia at the turn of the century to escape confining social codes. But in Australia he became the outsider, "a white nigger" he says. KENEALLY has written over 20 novels. He is a Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & NORA RAUM

Criminologist WALTER DICKEY. He is the author of the report What Every Policy Maker Should Know About Imprisonment and the Crime Rate. Professor Dickey of the University of Wisconsin Law School, has a new way of viewing crime in our society. Based on his recent report issued by the Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy, he and officials have concluded that incarceration has little effect on crime rates. They believe that there are number of factors which limit the impact of prison on crime.

DR. HENRY FOSTER, PRESIDENT CLINTON'S NOMINEE FOR SURGEON GENERAL, WAS APPROVED YESTERDAY BY THE SENATE LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE. NPR'S ELIZABETH ARNOLD REPORTS.

SOME THOUGHTS ON GRADUATION AND COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES.

Jazz guitarist Jimmy Raney died last month at the age of 67. PR's Tom Cole prepared an appreciation of one of Jazz music's great innovators

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: SHAY STEVENS & LAURA KNOY

Fresh Air TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI looks back at the 1994-95 TV season that just ended and the ratings that just came in.

NPR's Mike O'Connor reports from Zagreb on this week's fighting in roatia. Croatian government forces took back some of the land they had lost to ebel Croatian Serbs 3 years ago. O'Connor talks with several Serbs who are now eing forcibly relocated.

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Daniel speaks with students here in Washington, and with former New Jersey governor Tom Kean (kane) about rising tuition costs at America's universities. Kean, who's now president of Drew University says that state and federal budget cutbacks have pushed up tuition and forced students to take on more and more debt in the form of student loans.