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NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the history of the entiment, "nuke 'em", and how often the U.S. has come close to using nuclear eapons since the end of the second world war.

SARAJEVO: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S MIKE O'CONNOR IN SARAJEVO ABOUT THE LATEST BOSNIAN SERB ATTACKS ON U.N. "SAFE" AREAS.

ON THIS DAY IN 1979, PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS "MALAISE" SPEECH. TODAY, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH HENDRIK HERTZBERG, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, WHO WAS MR. CARTER'S PRINCIPAL SPEECHWRITER IN 1979 AND DRAFTED THAT SPEECH AND WHO NOW CONFIRMS A MISQUOTATION.

For centuries people have been cutting single pages out of are manuscripts for profit. The trade of the panel paintings and miniatures on hese pages is causing alarm among the curators and researchers who maintain and se libraries and archives. David D'Arcy reports from New York that this age-old ct of vandalism is still ruining priceless works of art.

LIGHTNING: Host Liane Hansen talks with Harold Deal of Greenwood, outh Carolina. Mr. Deal is a participant in the fifth annual "Lightning Strike nd Electric Shock Victims International Convention" being held this weekend in ettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Host Liane Hansen continues her onversation with Sadako Ogata (sah-DA-koh oh-GAH-tah), the United Nations High ommissioner for Refugees. This week they focus their discussion on the recent eturn of more than 1,000 Rwandan refugees. They also consider other current esponsibilites of the UNHCR, which provides assistance for the world's 27 illion refugees.

Mark Urycki (your-ICK-ee) of member station WKSU in Kent, hio, reports on the recent theft of some folio pages removed from a manuscript n the Vatican library. The man suspected of the crime is an art history rofessor who denies the charges.

SCOTT SIMON AND JOURNALIST MARVIN KALB, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.