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59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 15. FARAKHAN DOES IRAN - Robert talks with Hamid Araghie (aw-RAW-ghee), a journalist in Tehran about the arrival of Minister Louis Farrakhan in Iran and the reaction to a speech Farrakhan made yesterday at a rally celebrating the 1979 deposition of the Shah.

Balkans correspondent for the Financial Times, LAURA SILBER. She's the co-author of the new book, Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation (TV Books/Penguin, with Allan Little). In the book they look at the decisions that led to war. They write that Yugoslavia did not die a "natural death" that it was "deliberately and systematically killed off by men who had nothing to gain and everything to lose from a peaceful transition from state socialism and one-party rule to free-market democracy." There is also a accompanying TV documentary series to the book

Noah talks with Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post, about negative advertising in this year's GOP presidential campaign. Kurtz says the campaign method can backfire if the ads are too negative.

Since the Dayton peace accords were signed nearly two months ago, NATO has avoided linking itself too closely to the International War Tribunal investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. That position is changing. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that NATO forces in Bosnia are receiving new orders regarding suspected war criminals.

to pressure Rwandan refugees to go home.

Commentator Lee Cullum says too many Americans have no acquaintance with the past. Cullum says most Americans don't know where Medicare or welfare came from or why, and even some of our elected representatives believe history began with Ronald Reagan. But she draws some hope from the fact that "Sense and Sensibility" is both a best selling book and movie.

Noah Adams speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Kyle Pope about last week's IRA bombing in London. Pope says there is new evidence that the bombing was planned even before former Senator George Mitchell's peace plan was made public three weeks ago. -b- 14. THE PATRIOT - Alan Cheuse reviews a new novel by British writer Pier Paul Read. It's a thriller set in post Cold-War Berlin. The book is published by Random House.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Boris Yeltsin has announced he wants to continue as the Russian president. Yeltsin has apparently decided to run for re-election in June despite poor health and low ratings in opinion polls.

Beth Fertig reports on an ambitious housing project begun in New York City by the then powerful Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The housing project named Roosevelt Island. It was supposed to be a urban utopia....built to house rich and poor. But it has relied heavily on state support. So in these times of shrinking budgets, financial commitment to the island may be waning and residents are worried.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the rift between secular and religious Jews in Israel. In the wake of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a religious Jew, many find they are being characterized as extremists. But religious Jews condemn the assassin's actions, saying they would never condone murder on religious grounds.