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As thousands of women journey to eijing this week to particpate in the Non-Governmental Organization's Forum on omen, Liane Hansen looks at the global state literacy among woman. There are urrently 600 million illiterate women worldwide, and both the United Nations nd the NGO's have made enhancing literacy programs a priority over the next ecade.

Daniel talks to human rights activist Harry Wu, who was held by the Chinese government for 66 days and released during the past week. Wu says that while he was detained, he kept a secret diary in the margins of his dictionary, using the page numbers as a code for the date. He says that he loves China and will continue to return there.

NPR'S DEBBIE ELLIOT REPORTS ON COMMUNITY POLICING IN NEW ORLEANS.

We hear a few letters and comments from our listeners.

The Senate is planning to vote on welfare reform next Tuesday, and today, President Clinton, Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich all appeared on radio to stake out their positions. Clinton expressed his support for Senate progress on the plan, although he warned that if conservative voices prevail and the Congress walks away from bipartisan progress, welfare reform will die. Dole and Gingrich predicted welfare reform would pass.

Reporter Karen Michel take a look at humankind's constant esire to avoid growing old. She speaks with sociologists, gerontologists and a ew elderly folks visiting the "Fountain of Youth," in Florida.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with author Katherine Frank about er new book, PASSAGE TO EGYPT - THE LIFE OF LUCIE DUFF GORDON (Houghton ifflin). This biography recounts the life of a British socialite who relocated o the Middle East and made Egypt her home. Frank's pursuit of information on uff Gordon's background was inspired by letters sent by Gordon from Egypt to er homeland.

Daniel talks to Frank Keith, spokesperson for the IRS, and Greg Holloway of the General Accounting Office, about a GAO study that concludes that the IRS' internal bookkeeping system is so bad that it is virtually impossible to audit them. Keith says that the IRS deals with more recipts that the top 30 Fortune 500 companies put together with computer systems designed in the 60s, and that, given their present system, it is impossible to provide auditors with the information they need.

SIMON/SPERRY TOP-SIDER: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH BOB MOORE, PRESIDENT OF SPERRY TOP-SIDER, THE FOOTWEAR INVENTED 60 YEARS AGO TO HELP SAILORS GRIP WET DECKS.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and Senator John Kerry D-MA) on situation in Bosnia; 14-year old Waco hearing witness, Keri Jewell, rosecutor Ray Yan and sociologist Dr. Stuart Wright of Lamar University on the aco hearings; President Bill Clinton and Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) on ffirmative Action; Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and White House Counsel Mark abiani on the Whitewater hearings.