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Robert talks with Clifford Krauss, the police department bureau chief for the New York Times. Krauss discusses how fingerprint technology and a citywide crackdown on petty crime led to the arrest of three suspected killers in the New York metropolitan area.

Commentator Michael Hood recalls his childhood in the Fifties, when fathers ruled the roost and children knew their parts. Chicken parts were divvied up according to the family food chain, with giblets being the prize: Food of the Dads.

1: Essayist, poet and playwright DAVID MAMET. His new book, "Make-Believe Town" (Little, Brown and Co), is a selection of essays about everything from theater to politics to Judaism. His work has been called opinionated, forceful, original and always surprising. MAMET won a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross" and has written and directed several motion pictures.

the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been under negotiation for more than two years...

Rock historian ED WARD tells us about the music genre known as "techno." INT. 2: Playwright MART CROWLEY. His works were recently re-published in a book, "3 Plays by Mart Crowley" (Alyson Publications). "The Boys in the Band" (1968), is the classic portrait of a gay artist living in New York and was one of the first plays to break the taboo on the portrayal of homosexuality. A revival of "The Boys in the Band" opened in June and the film version is being featured at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this summer. CROWELY''s other works in the book are "A Breeze from the Gulf" (1974) and "For Reasons that Remain Uncertain" (1994).REV. 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new three part series on PBS, "Signal to Noise: Life with Television.

to increase minority representation on jury panels. The efforts face a variety of hurdles including the revelation by a recent study suggesting that African-Americans are less likely to respond to the questionnaires that lead to jury duty.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that an unemployment report released today suggested that economic growth in the U-S is slowing. There had been concern that the growing economy would spark high inflation.

Scott with an essay on the neglect of our nation's capital. >

Actor, CHARLES DUTTON. DUTTON came to acting in a very unusual way: while serving a manslaughter sentence in the Maryland State Penatentiary, he organized the performance of a play and realized he loved acting. Now furthering the irony, he plays Sherrif Ozzie Walls in the new movie, "A Time To Kill." Prior to the film, he received Tony nominations for work in two plays by August Wilson as well as a Best Actor Emmy for the Halmark Hall of Fame film version of "The Piano Lesson." Other film credits include "Mississippi Masala," "Rudy" and "Nick of Time." Dutton was the lead character in FOX's "Roc," which is noe syndicated on Black Entertainment Television. (Re-broadcast, originally aired 12/

- Daniel speaks with Beth Fertig, of member station WNYC, about the latest evidence from TWA Flight 800 that investigators have pulled up from the waters off Long Island.