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about where the 2002 World Cup should be held... Japan and South Korea are both competing to host the event.

Linda has an obituary for 1940's Western film star Lash LaRue. His death was announced earlier today.

Prosecutors in Lane County, Oregon tape-recorded a Catholic confession between a jailed triple-murder suspect and a jailhouse priest. Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that what was said has not been revealed, but prosecutors want to use the tape in court. Some Catholic leaders and civil libertarians are outraged; they say confessions are sacred and cannot be revealed.

Reviewer Daisann McLane reviews "The Secret Museum of Mankind", a two volume compact disc compilation featuring rare ethnic music from the years 1925 - 1948. The man who compiled the collection has been acquiring 78s at thrift shops, yard sales, and estate sales for decades. "The Secret Museum of Mankind" is available through Yazoo Records, catalog number 7004. (7:30) (S

NPR's Daniel Schorr discusses Bob Dole's big adventure with San Francisco Chronicle political editor Susan Yoachum and American Enterprise Insitute scholar Norman Ornstein.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Community Affairs Richard Holbrooke testified today at a hearing before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, which has begun hearings to determine whether the White House complied with federal law on covert activities in relation to the shipment of Iranian arms to Bosnia. Linda talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the committee's progress, and what the committee's findings might mean for American foreign policy.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Senator Bob Dole gave a speech today on his plans to reform the welfare system if he is elected President. The presumptive Republican nominee called for a five-year lifetime limit on receiving welfare benefits and said states should have the option of testing recipients for drugs. He criticized President Clinton for failing to reform welfare, as Clinton had promised to do before being elected to the White House.

Scott talks to Aileen (pronounced Eileen) Riggin Soule (sool), who won the Gold Medal for springboard diving in the 1920 Olympics. At the age of 90, she's still competing... and winning.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the Clinton administration has taken a keener interest in the ongoing violence in Burundi, as fighting there between Hutus and Tutsis has escalated in recent weeks. Four senior administration officials have visited the central African nation in the past week, and the US is pushing at the United Nations for the creation of a peacekeeping force. Many fear that Burundi's conflict could escalate to the level of mass killing experienced in neighboring Rwanda two years ago.

Scott talks over the details of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case with New Orleans writer Keith Medley.