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From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

The Smithsonian's celebration of the American South includes an array of terrific bands. Robert met with Michael Doucet (doo-SAY), the leader of the Cajun band Beausoleil (BOH-soh-LAY). He also listened to the Treme (TRAY-may) brass band from New Orleans, and the Birmingham Sunlights, a five-member a cappella (AH-kuh-PELL-uh) band.

free tolls when traffic backs up, and starting Monday -- a 65 Miles-per-hour speed limit on parts of the thruway to the New York border.

Record producer NICK VENET. He has produced more than 300 albums in his career and has collected numerous Grammy nominations and awards. He is co-producer of a new Bobby Darin box set (Rhino). VENET was also Darin's producer and friend. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST 3/19/96) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

One aspect of campaigning that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has mastered is his ability to find some personal link to just about every place he visits. Either he was stationed there as a young military officer or he recuperated there after his war injury. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold gives examples from recent Dole campaign trips of this age-old political technique for connecting with voters.

A church service is held every Sunday in a junk yard on Chicago's South Side. The preacher is 82, the services are non-denominational, and the congregation is made up of the homeless as well as customers and employees of the junk yard. NPR'S Edward Lifson reports that those who attend the services say they don't need a pristine setting or a church to find God. (8:00) (IN S

Robert talks about the three-year-old Rottweiler, "Gator," who found the last survivor in the bombed Oklahoma City Federal building. Gator recently died after a fall in his owner's back yard.

2: Musician JOHN CALE was the violist, keyboardist and bassist of the 60's avante garde band, The Velvet Underground. Since the breakup of the group in 1968, JOHN CALE has had a career as a solo artist. In 1990, he collaborated with former Velvet Underground member Lou Reed, on "Songs for Drella," a tribute to artist Andy Warhol. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 8/1/94) MOE TUCKER, drummer for The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed's band that won cult status in the mid-70s. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 10

MOE TUCKER, drummer for The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed''s band that won cult status in the mid-70s. (RE-BROADCAST FROM 10