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NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the summit on terrorism, which was attended by leaders of 27 countries, many of them former enemies of Israel. President Clinton praised the gathering for coming up with concrete ideas for combatting terrorism, but others felt the summit was short on details.

NPR's Tom Gjelten in Bosnia was at the killing fields this morning with United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright. Albright visited a farm believed to contain a mass grave. Gjelten reports that she said the bones and body she saw are clear evidence of a systematic slaughter.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Center for People and the Press, and to Chris Matthews of CM Research, who does polling for Republican candidates, on the gender gap. They discuss why women appear to be staying away from Republican primaries; and why the political language of the Republican party in 1994 and again this year appears to be more appealing to men than to women. Both Matthews and Kohut suggest ways the GOP may be able to overcome what could be a serious problem for Senator Dole in the coming November elections. (7:30) IN STEREO 2B CUTAWAY 0:59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 13. GM STRIKE -- Linda talks with Harley Shaiken, a labor specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, and David Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan, about the strike at General Motors that has shut down 21 assembly plants across the country and threatens to escalate into a national ordeal. Cole talks about the industry's push to become leaner and their use of "just-in-time manufacturing." Following the lead of Japan, GM now keeps only a very small supply of critical components, like brakes, in stock. Shaiken explains how this practice gives union strikes considerable leverage because a small number of strikers can paralyze a large organization.

A team of researchers, analyzing NASA photographs, have discovered what they believe are the remnants of gigantic architectural features on the surface of the moon. Roving correspondent Bob Garfield sat through their press conference, and was stunned by what he heard.

Linda talks with South African journalist Stephanie Bothma (BOT-ma) about the opening today of the murder trial of South Africa's former defense minister and several other former senior military officials. Magnus Malan (muh-LAWN) and the other defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge that they orchestrated a 1987 massacre of apartheid opponents. The trial has caused a sensation in South Africa; Malan is the highest-ranking former apartheid official to be put on trial.

presidential election. Perot was a third-party candidate in 1992; when he got 19-percent of the national vote.

order which gives the government the power to freeze bank accounts in the U.S. believed to be controlled by Hamas and other terrorist groups. But it's unclear how successful the order has been in preventing terrorists from getting to their money.

The statue, which depicts a black teenager cowering before a white policeman and his dog, was supposed to be a monument of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, but critics now say it may have a detrimental effect.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says the government should not meddle in Amercians' decision to die.

- along the Via Dolorsa [VEE-uh doh-lah-ROH-suh]... the path Jesus walked to his death, this walk is referred to in a Christian Meditation known as the Stations of the Cross. Commentator Sister Maureen Fiedler sees the Stations of the Cross in the modern world in the faces of those who are unemployed, sick and destitute.