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2: Music artist, JIM DICKINSON, talks about his friend, and legandary Memphis deejay, Dewey Philips. Philips is best known as the first deejay to play Elvis Presley on the air. Dewey Philips also pushed the racial barriers of the time by playing a mix of music by black and white artists.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that African nations have apparently given up trying to win a second term for United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt. African diplomats met in New York today to discuss a possible successor...trying to ensure that the position goes to another African. The United States has used its veto in the UN Security Council to block a second term for Boutros-Ghali, saying he has not done enough to reform the world body.

which the state of Florida will try to help resolve. At Miami's request, Governor Lawton Chiles has sent advisors to assist the city to bring the budget into balance, as required by state law. Miami faces a $68-million shortfall in the current year.

where Serbian authorities have closed down the country's only remaining independent radio station.

reluctance to intervene in the country's problems.

of operating on elderly patients, and how with people living longer than before, procedures that previously would not have been considered, are now common place.

From Los Angeles, NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on an unusual American success story in cracking the Japanese automobile market: Latino business people are exporting to Japan the American automotive icon known as the low-rider -- those souped-up hot rods with hydraulic suspensions and low-riding profiles. Del Barco reports that the low-riders, immortalized in films and rap music, have captured the imaginations of the Japanese, who are willing to pay big bucks for the customized cars.

Federal officials have determined that poverty isn't the only reason why many public housing projects in the United States have deteriorated into virtual war zones where drugs and crime plague residents. They believe that the architectural structure of the complexes may have something to do with it. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that government architects are exploring new designs for public housing to make them safer places to live.

of the social security system -- an advisory panel will recommend this month that social security funds should be invested, one way or another, in the private financial markets...

We hear excerpts from the ceremony at which President Clinton presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to astronaut Shannon Lucid today. Lucid holds the American record for spending the most time in space. She stayed in space for 188 days earlier this year.