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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FRANK BEACHEM, A WRITER WHO GREW UP IN HONEA (HUN-nee-uh) PATH, SOUTH CAROLINA, WHERE, IN SEPTEMBER OF 1934, STRIKING UNION COTTON MILL WORKERS GATHERED FOR A RALLY AT THE CHIQUOLA (sheh-KO-lah) MILL. A BLOODY CONFRONTATION RESULTED, 7 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, 17 WERE INJURED, AND THE STRIKE WAS BROKEN. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS TO MR. BEACHAM ABOUT A REVELATION THAT CONNECTS HIM TO THE SHOOTING AND ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY "THE UPRISING OF '34) BY GEORGE STONEY, JUDITH HELFAND AND SUSANNE ROSTOCK, WHICH WILL BE AIRED ON MONDAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HONEA PATH AND ON PUBLIC TELEVISION'S DOCUMENTARY SERIES P.O.V. ON JUNE 27, 1995.

2: Jazz Saxophonist, STAN GETZ. Born in Philadelphia in 1927, Getz got his start playing with Woody Herman's band. He later went on to form his own quartet. He has worked with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Lionel Hampton. In the early 1960's, Getz became the first American musician closely identified with the bossa nova movement. He died in 1991. (REBROADCAST FROM 6

BOSNIA: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS AND NPR'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT TOM GJELTEN AND, IN SARAJEVO, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS, ABOUT THE 200 UNITED NATIONS SOLDIERS BEING HELD, EITHER AS HOSTAGES OR HUMAN SHIELDS, BY SERB FORCES AGAINST FURTHER AIR-STRIKES BY NATO WARPLANES IN BOSNIA. THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENING THERE, AND WHAT MEASURES ARE BEING TAKEN BY THE FRENCH CABINET, NATO, AND THE UNITED NATIONS IN RESPONSE TO THIS ACT.

T-V Critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the new Star Trek series, "Star Trek: Voyager" on the new network United Paramount Network (UPN).

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Actor ANDRE BRAUGHER (rhymes with "flower"). In the NBC series, "Homicide," he plays the shaved-headed Detective Frank Pembleton, a man described as "eloquent but icy." BRAUGHER was educated at Julliard and is an experienced Shakespearean actor. His other acting credits include, the film, "Glory," and the TNT special, "The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson."

Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews the new Helen Merrill release,"Brownie," a tribute to Clifford Browne, on the Verve label.

Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.

Journalist DENNIS COVINGTON. He's written a new book about the practice of snake handling in a Southern Appalachian church. Practitioners use snake handling as a kind of "annointing", in a belief that the Holy Spirit comes down to protect them from fear and danger in handling the poisonous snakes. COVINGTON came to write the book as a journalistic endeavor and it became an exploration of his own faith. He himself handled the snakes. COVINGTON's new book is "Salvation on Sand Mountain," (Addison-Wesley).