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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including Sen. Majority Leader Bob Dole, President Bill Clinton, ep. Tim Hutchinson (R-ARK), House Minority Leader David Bonior (D-MI), U.S. mbassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, Lebanese President Elias rawi (hah-RAH-ree) speaking through an interpreter, and Gov. Don Sundquist SUND-kwist) of Tennessee.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports on what awaits the nearly two million Rwandan refugees who choose to go home from camps in Zaire and other countries. While many have been told they will be killed or jailed in revenge for the genocide of 1994, most are able to go back and resume their lives. But many do have problems--there have been killings, and thousands have been thrown in overcrowded jails, sometimes on the flimsiest of evidence.

SIMON/ GOLF: SCOTT SPEAKS WITH THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BERING SEA ICE GOLF CLASSIC, ELLIOT STAPLES, ABOUT THE 6 HOLE GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT TAKES PLACE TODAY IN NOME, ALASKA.

On October 13, 1994, five year old Eric Morse was thrown to his death from the 14th story window of an apartment in the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago. He was thrown by two boys who at the time were ten and eleven years old. Young reporters LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have spent the last year on assignment for "All Things Considered", exploring this crime and its impact on the neighborhood. The first hour of our program today is devoted to this story. LeAlan and Lloyd live in the same neighborhood where Eric Morse died. Along with the head of the Chicago Housing Authority, they tour the building he was thrown from. The view from the 14th story is bleak, offering little hope to residents. The boys learn firsthand how difficult reporting can be when doors slam in their faces as they go around asking people to talk to them about Eric Morse's death. Prosecuting and defense attorneys involved in the case talk about the impact the Ida B. Wells neighborhood had on the boys who killed Eric Morse. The prosecuting attorney says she has not seen a crime this awful before - and the defense attorneys say it was bound to happen and may happen again if systematic problems are not addressed. We hear from kids in the neighborhood, and from young relatives. Eric Morse's young cousin talks about how much he misses Eric and about the fights he has had with the young killers. We hear from an adult who tried to help the killers when they were in elementary school. One of the killers brought crack cocaine to kindergarten. The father of one of the young killers, interviewed by LeAlan and Lloyd at a prison where he was incarcerated, says his son was a gentle boy. And in an exclusive interview, Eric Morse's mother and half brother (who watched him die, and tried to run down 14 flights of stairs to catch him), talk about Eric and how much they miss him, and how troubled his killers must have been. Through it all, reporters LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman wonder what has made them different, why they didn't end up as killers or dead themselves. (IN S

Noah talks with Joel and Ethan Coen. the brothers behind the film, "Fargo." The characters and a certain time are important for their movies. In this case, it's 1987 in the upper Midwest, in the dead of winter, when businessmen wear goofy hats and big down parkas over their otherwise elegant suits and have to waste time scrapping ice off their cars. The Coen brother grew up in St. Louis, a Minneapolis suburb.

STAMBERG/ LETTERS: SUSAN READS SOME LISTENER COMMENTS

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH JOHN HAYNES, A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HISTORIAN, ABOUT RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT SHOW HOW WIDESPREAD SOVIET SPYING WAS IN THE U.S. DURING WORLD WAR TWO.

THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET, WHICH INCLUDES THE LEGENDARY CHARLIE BYRD, CELEBRATES 10 YEARS AS A GROUP. THEY PLAY AND TALK ABOUT THE UNIQUE NATURE OF BEING AN ALL CLASSICAL GUITAR BAND. 16:45 (The Washington Guitar Quintet CDs can be found in many record stores under Charlie Byrd's listings. The group has two CDs 1) CHARLIE BYRD/ THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET 2) AQUARELLE - CHARLIE BYRD WITH THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET If your local record shop does NOT have a copy call Concord Jazz Inc. 1-800-551-5299 or you can write to: Concord Jazz Inc. P.O. Box 845 Concord, CA.