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TV critic, DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Diane Sawyer''s interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, which aired June 14th on ABC''s "Primetime."

Daniel talks with Kenneth Mann, law professor at Tel Aviv University, about the Israeli police policy of using force during interrogations in which terrorism is suspected. Mann says Israeli's realize that sometimes one must balance this "uncomfortable necessity" with the reality of the situation they live in.

Poet, critic and translator ROBERT HASS. This year, The U.S. Library Congress named HASS has the American Poet Laureate. Two collections of his work were published last year, Selected Poems 1954-1986, and Provinces 1987-1991. He translated, with poet Robert Pinsky, Czeslaw Milosz's The Separate Notebooks. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Antaeus, and Salmagundi. Many of his essays are collected in the book, Twentieth Century. He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first volume of poetry, Field Guide, published in 1973.(Rebroadcast. Originally aired 1/16/89.)Poet SHARON OLDS. She writes passionate and intensely personal poems about her childhood with abusive and alcoholic parents, and her own experiences as a mother and a wife. Suicide attempts in New York, and encounters on the subway also provide inspiration for her work. Sharon Olds is the recipient of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection titled The Dead and the Living. (Rebroadcast, Originally aired 6/29/88.

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 68TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES LINDBERGH'S HISTORIC NON-STOP TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ISABEL HAYNES, WHO WAS 12 YEARS OLD AND A SPECTATOR WHEN HE TOOK OFF FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD IN NEW YORK'S LONG ISLAND ON MAY 20, 1927.

ALISON DES FORGES (pronounced DAY-FORZSH) is a consultant to Human Rights Watch Africa. Last month, the Rwandan Patriotic Army opened fire at a refugee camp. Human Rights Watch says 2000 people were killed. Des Forges visited the camp following the massacre. DES FORGES is also the Co-Chair of the International Commission on Human Rights Abuse in Rwanda. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her specialty is the African countries of Rwanda and Burundi. (THIS CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Heavyweight champion GEORGE FOREMAN. At age 46 FOREMAN still retains the title. He is presently a preacher, community leader and dedicated child advocate. His new book By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman (Villard Books) written with Joel Engel, reveals the man behind the champion

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NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS ON A HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL, INTRODUCED BY REPUBICAN SENATOR NANCY KASSEBAUM AND DEMOCRAT EDWARD KENNEDY, INTENDED TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO GET INSURANCE, AND HARDER TO LOSE IT....EVEN IF YOU GET SICK OR CHANGE JOBS.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether their respective budget balancing proposals will actually eliminate the deficit. This past week, the Congressional Budget Office found that the Clinton plan would fail to do so.

Writer, FRAN LEBOWITZ. The Washington Post called LEBOWITZ "the funniest woman in America." Her first children's book Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas was published in 1994. In 1978, LEBOWITZ wrote the critically acclaimed book Metropolitan Life a collection of witty essays about life. (REBROADCAST FROM 1