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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews Clifton Taulbert's film memoir, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored. The drama chronicles Taulbert's coming of age in the segregated South.

Danny talks with NPR's Lynn Neary, who attended a meeting of conservative Christian voters in Memphis, Tennessee today. All the presidential contenders from both parties were invited to attend, but President Clinton, and more interestingly, Bob Dole, did not show up. Lynn says that Dole, who said he had a scheduling conflict, may have stayed away because he is not terribly popular among conservative Christian voters...or because he may not believe he needs their support to capture the Republican nomination for presidency.

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Liane Hansen speaks with syndicated columnist Cindy dams about her new book, "Iron Rose," a biography of Rose Fitzgerald ennedy, the matriarch of the Kennedy political family, who died one year go. Adams thinks Rose Kennedy provided a great deal more strength of will o the family than is normally supposed.

Liane Hansen speaks with Salameh Ne'Matt (SAH-luh-may ay-MATT), Jordanian correspondent for the newspaper Al-Hiyat (AHL high-YAHT), he Middle East's largest Arabic daily newspaper, about the challenges faced by rafat now that he has secured a mandate from the Palestinian people. Ne'Matt lso says the newly-elected Palestinian Council will be a strong governing force n the Middle East. Over the next few months, Ne'Matt predicts, Arafat will be ocusing on the status of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on yesterdays National ssue Convention, held in Austin, Texas. Several of the Republican candidates or the presidential nomination were on hand to answer questions from a selected roup of voters. Although front-runner Senator Bob Dole was not in attendance, he other candidates fielded questions on, among other things, proposals for a flat tax".

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Dean Olsher has an appreciation of jazz artist Gerry Mulligan, a baritone saxophonist who died yesterday. He was 68.

SCOTT CELEBRATES COMEDIAN GEORGE BURNS' 100TH BIRTHDAY TODAY WITH FIVE FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO SHARE THIS BIRTH DATE.

TOM GJELTEN REPORTS ON SERBS FROM THE SARAJEVO SUBURBS AND WHETHER THEY WILL REMAIN ONCE THEIR TOWNS ARE TURNED OVER TO THE MUSLIMS.