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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the request for the FBI files may have been an innocent mistake, but it was also an inexcusable one, since we should have learned from our country's not-too-distant past.

Mary Losure (LOW-zhur) examines the religious phenomenon of speaking in tongues. Long associated with Pentacostalism, the practice is growing among other Christian denominations in the U-S. Researchers have attempted to explain it as a sign of mental illness, an altered state, or even neurological breakdown but it continues to defy rational explanation. Practitioners describe the deep sense of freedom, joy and well-being they experience as they give glory in tongues.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin today met with a group of black ministers in Washington. He pledged that federal investigators would work to win the trust of the black community. The ministers had complained about how federal investigators were handling the investigation of the black church burnings. Today, Rubin said the federal government will not be satisfied until the cases are solved.

The favorite and reigning champion Miguel Indurain failed to win a record sixth victory in cycling's premiere event.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on a memorial held today for the victims of TWA Flight 800. Relatives and friends were taken to a point of land closest to the crash site, where they threw flowers into the sea to remember their love ones.

A commentary from retired Lt. General Thomas McInerney who argues in favor of passage of the Chemical weapons Convention...a treaty that will make chemical weapons illegal. He says the U.S. military supports this treaty because there is scant military advantage to keeping chemical weapons and defending against them is an impediment to fighting forces.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that the southern African nation of Angola is warily moving forward with a peace prcoess designed to end a devastating twenty-year civil war. But many are nervous about wheher the government and revels can see the process through. There still is tremendous distrust and the revels are lagging in demobilizing their troops.

and crash that killed 230 people. Searchers got a big break yesterday when they located a 30-by-60 foot section of the plane's fuselage... they also recovered six more bodies. The investigation has been hampered by bad weather, and mechanical and logistical problems.

- Daniel visits squid expert Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Roper - a biologist - is organizing an expedition to the South Pacific, where he hopes to find a kind of massive squid that reportedly has been sighted by soldiers and fishermen. Roper will search for the squid in a glass bubble that will descend hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the fallout from two incidents yesterday in which seven Israelis were killed. The first was a Hezbollah guerilla attack on Israeli soldiers in what Israel calls its 'security zone' in Southern Lebanon; the second incident occured in Israel itself, where two civilians were killed in an attack blamed on Palestinian gunmen. The violence brought outgoing Prime Minister Shimon Peres (shee-MOHN PEAR-ez) and his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu (n'tahn-YAH-hoo) together for talks. Netanyahu narrowly defeated Peres in last month's election, in part by promising Israelis greater security. But some analsyts say there's little that can be done to stop such attacks completely.