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NPR'S ANN COOPER REPORTS FROM SOWETO OTHAT ALTHOUGH APARTHEID HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE APARTHEID "MENTALITY" STILL EXISTS IN THAT COUNTRY'S POLICE FORCE.

As the House prepares to vote on rolling back the "Great Society" welfare programs of the 1960's and to give states the power to run their own assistance programs, one state-based program -- child support enforcement - is likely to become a federal one. NPR's Peter Kenyon examines this exception to the devolutionary trend.

Daniel talks with Bowdoin College economics professor Rick Freeman about how one goes about doing a cost benefit analysis. The Republicans would like to pass legislation that could require such an analysis for every federal law that would have a major economic impact. Mr. Freeman explains exactly how the process works.

2: Poet LI-YOUNG LEE. He's written two volumes of poetry, Rose, (Boa Editions), and The City in Which I Love You, (Boa Editions). LEE's won many awards for his work, including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He's just completed a memoir about his family's refugee experience in America, The Winged Seed (Simon & Schuster). LEE was born in Indonesia. His parents were from China, where his father had been private physician to Mao. LEE's father became a political prisoner in Indonesia, and escaped. After traveling through Southeast Asia, the family ended up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where his father headed an all-white Presbyterian church. LEE was six years old then. One reviewer writes of the memoir, "a powerful attempt to conquer the past and--with compassion--to sign a truce with it."

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews some film music.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two new CD''s by alto saxophonist Gary Bartz: Episode One Children of Harlem (Challenge) and The Red and Orange Poens (Atlantic).

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL WAGNER, PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF THE DOCUMENTARY "OUT OF IRELAND - THE STORY OF IRISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA." IT WILL BE SHOWN ON PBS LATER THIS YEAR. THERE IS A COMPANION BOOK: "OUT OF IRELAND" BY KERBY MILLER AND PAUL WAGNER, PUBLISHED BY ELLIOTT & CLARK PUBLISHING, WASHINGTON, D.C.

2: SARGENT SHRIVER... he is currently Chairman of the Special Olympics. He was organizer and first director of the Peace Corps, elevating it to become one of the most successful programs of the Kennedy Administration. SHRIVER headed president Johnson's War On Poverty in the 60's. During his tenure he also created VISTA, Headstart, Job Corps and many other successful programs. He recently received the Medal of Freedom from President Clinton - the country's highest civilian honor.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the new book, "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhatten in the 1920s" by Ann Douglas. (Farrar, Straus & G

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MICHAEL ENRIGHT, THE HOST OF THE CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION'S FAMED SHOW "AS IT HAPPENS," ABOUT PROPOSED CUTS OF THE NETWORK'S BUDGET AND THE RESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CBC, ANTHONY MANERA.