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Host Bob Edwards talks to Roger Diwan of the Petroleum Finance Company in Washington, DC, about the prospect that Saudi Arabia will increase its oil production by 500-thousand barrels a day. The production increase will have implications for the price of gasoline. Diwan says that, if Saudi Arabia decides to go ahead and start pumping that much more oil, crude oil prices could fall within a short period of time and lower gasoline prices could follow later this summer.

Noah talks with Frankie Andreau, a bike racer on the US Postal Service Team in the Tour de France, about his role in the race. Team work is crucial in the Tour de France and bikers are assigned different roles, like sprinters, climbers and overall workers, who support one or two leaders. Lance Armstrong is the leader on Andreau's team. The rest of the team is always working to conserve Armstrong's energy. Andreau is considered a worker, who may sprint to the front to protect Armstrong from the wind or who may drop back to get something Armstrong needs.

Pat Dowell reports on a small movie amid the big blockbusters this summer, a Canadian film called The Five Senses. The movie focuses on the interrelated lives of five people whose characters are linked to each one of the senses.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, on this, the 35th anniversary of the Medicare program. They discuss how Medicare has changed over the last three decades and what challenges are ahead for the system. Secretary Shalala makes the case for the Clinton administration's proposal that prescription drugs be covered by Medicare. About 39 million Americans receive Medicare benefits.

Noah talks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the US Olympic Track and Field trials in Sacramento, California. There will be eight days of competition over the next ten days. Track is gaining popularity as the Summer Games approach, and nearly 20-thousand spectators are expected for the trials. Stefan talks about some of the athletes that we'll be hearing about in the competitions.

Julia Barton of member station WHYY reports that protesters arrested outside last week's Republican National Convention remain in jail days later, and refuse to give their names to police. The protesters say people could be singled out if they did give real names, but police contend protesters are remaining in jail by choice.

Host Howard Berkes talks to Ted Sorensen, former special counsel and speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, about the selection this week of Senator Joseph Lieberman to be Vice President Al Gore's running mate. Sorensen was part of Kennedy's 1960 campaign, the last time a candidate's religion played a role in an election. Kennedy had to fight anti-Catholic bias to win the Democratic nomination and the presidency.

A new report from the Surgeon General calls for sweeping measures to reduce tobacco use. Among them: higher taxes on tobacco products and tighter regulation of marketing and sales. NPR's Jon Hamilton has a report.

Host Howard Berkes continues the second part of a two part story on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormon Militiamen killed over a hundred Arkansas settlers on a Southern Utah field in 1857...and now the Mormon Church is working to put the matter to rest. The Church has not accepted blame for the incident, but it has built a new monument on the site. Some descendents of both the travelers and the militiamen say the gesture is helping them come to terms with what happened a hundred and forty-seven years ago.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that other countries are following the example set in the U.S. and suing tobacco companies to recover health care costs. Cases are already pending in South America, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.