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Vicki Que reports on some of the issues that will be discussed at the international conference on women, which begin this coming week in Beijing.

World music critic MILO MILES reviews "Grayfolded" by the Canadian avant-gardist John Oswald which is two extended versions of the Grateful Dead song "Dark Star." Using a technique called "plunderphonics" Oswald took recordings from the Dead and manipulated them electronically. (If you can''t find the album in your record store, it can be ordered from Swell Productions, 253 College St., #295, Toronto, Canada, M5T 1R5. Phone: 416-531-

NPR'S TOM GJELTEN HAS THIS ASSESSMENT OF HAITI'S PROGRESS OVER THE PAST YEAR.... SINCE PRESIDENT CLINTON SENT TWENTY THOUSAND AMERICAN TROOPS TO THAT COUNTRY TO RESTORE PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE TO POWER.

Rock historian ED WARD continues his series on cities and rock and roll. Today''s city is New Orleans.

MATT JACKSON OF MEMBER STATION WUFT IN GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA, REPORTS ON A RIVER BAPTISM HE RECENTLY ATTENDED IN THE SUWANEE (SWAN-ee) RIVER.

Organizers of an international womens forum near Beijing today called an emergency meeting with Chinese officials. They demanded that Chinese security forces stop harassing delegates and preventing free access to forum sites. Organizers say if offiicals don't ease up on security by noon tomorrow the forum could be ended early. NPR's Mary Kay Magstead reports from the conference.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed today at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Daniel talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein, who is in Jeruselem, about what happened.

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF INTERPRETER VAL CHLEBOWSKI (shleh-BOV-skee), SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH FORMER POLISH PRIME MINISTER AND UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INVESTIGATOR FOR BOSNIA, TADEUSZ MAZOWIECKI ABOUT THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS. MR. MAZAWIECKI RESIGNED HIS POST IN JULY TO PROTEST THE SERBS' CAPTURE OF THE MUSLIM ENCLAVE OF SREBRENICA, STATING THE U.N.'S FAILURE TO PROTECT ITS OWN DESIGNATED 'SAFE AREAS' MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO "CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRETENSE OF THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS."

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WIT BURTON H. THROCKMORTON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF NEW TESTAMENT AT THE BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND AN EDITOR OF NEW "NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS: AN INCLUSIVE VERSION," PUBILSHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

2: Novelist, PAUL AUSTER. AUSTER has been called "America's most spectacularly inventive writers." AUSTER recently "broadened his creative reach" with his work on two films, "Smoke" and "Blue in the Face", in a double collaboration with director Wayne Wang , who also directed "The Joy Luck Club." AUSTER has a BA and an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbus University. His novels include Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan, and Mr. Vertigo. His film "Blue in the Face" is now out in theaters. (REBROADCAST from 6