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Michael speaks with NPR's Cheryl Devall, who's covering the annual meeting of the NAACP. It's the organization's first meeting under the leadership of its new president, Myrlie Evers-Williams.

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SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Yesterday President Clinton issued an executive order that established the first uniform standards for U.S. agencies in granting security clearances to employees. Among the directives was an order to end the denial of security clearances because an applicant is gay. Daniel talks to Frank Kameny, who was denied government security clearances in the 1950s and 60s and was the first person to fight a discharge from a federal civil service job because of his homosexuality.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Carl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun about a ew issues in the news this past week, including the Congressional hearings on oth the Whitewater affair and the government raid on the Branch Davidian ompound in Waco, Texas; plus, President Clinton's public support of affirmative ction, and the the increased involvement of the United States in the Bosnian onflict.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE FINAL DAYS OF CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARING INTO THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN INCIDENT...HAVE THESE HEARINGS REVEALED ANY GREAT SECRETS OR HAVE THEY JUST SHOWN THAT STRONG EMOTIONS STILL SURROUND THE INCIDENT TWO YEARS LATER?

WHILE THE FATE OF TWO FORMER FOLLOWERS OF THE LATE BAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH, THE FLAMBOUYANT MYSTIC WHO ATTEMPTED TO CREAT A UTOPIAN COMMUNE IN THE HIGH DESERT OF OREGON FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, HAS BEEN DETERMINED, HAVING BEEN CONVICTED YESTERDAY OF CONSPIRING TO KILL A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR IN 1985, THE FUTURE OF THE RAJNEESH FACILITY IS YET UNKNOWN. FROM ANTELOPE, OREGON, LEY GARNETT REPORTS.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.