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The other subject of Hugh Rodham's advocacy was A. Glenn Braswell, who was convicted of fraud and perjury in connection with the marketing of herbal supplements. Noah talks with Peter Slevin of the Washington Post, who has been covering the story.

Sarah Chayes reports from Paris on the corruption trial involving French oil giant Elf Aquitaine. The company's CEO, a French foreign minister and others have been accused of exchaning millions of dollars in bribes in the early 1990's.

The new government in Belgrade has been restrained in its reaction to attacks by ethnic Albanian insurgents in the Presevo Valley region, but the rebels have become more brazen. Three Serbian police were killed in mid-February in a landmine attack blamed on the rebels, and the insurgents are also suspected in an even more deadly attack on Serb civilians whose bus was blown up in Kosovo. At some point the Serb public will demand that its government take tough, swift action against the rebels. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

Marc Pachter, director of the National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., describes the process the museum went through to find a donor willing to contribute $20 million toward the purchase of the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington -- on loan since 1968.

Jazz composer and arranger Bob Belden has written a musical suite based on the 1947 "Black Dahlia" case, involving the murder of a young actress. His influences include novelist James Ellroy and composers Alban Berg and Jerry Goldsmith. Belden is also known for producing Grammy-winning reissues of classic albums by Miles Davis.

A consortium of AIDS drug makers is suing the South African government, trying to block a law they say will erode their patent rights...and their profits. The law would allow the government to import generic drugs or authorize their manufacture, if needed drugs are priced too high. AIDS activists want the government to implement the law, so that the estimated four million infected with H-I-V will have access to life-sustaining drugs. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Johannesburg.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that the largest concentration of Zapatistas in Mexico isn't in the jungles of Chiapas, but rather in Mexico City. Zapatistas are indigineous to Mexico and have been fighting since 19-94 for more rights. Right now, a caravan of Zapitistas from Chiapas -- a so-called caravan of peace -- is headed to Mexico City to help further their cause. And Zapitistas in the capital hope it will shed light on their particular urban problems.

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Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Thomas Hayden, who donated some genetic material to the Human Genome Project, and who wrote an essay in today's New York Times magazine.

On Friday, workers at the Duro plant just across border inside Mexico voted overwhelmingly not to join an independent union. The outcome is seen as further evidence of Mexico's harsh treatment of independent labor organizers. The election was preceded by intimidation by the company and the state-controlled union, which is considered very corrupt. President Vicente Fox has indicated he wants independents to be protected, but the vote doesn't reflect any change in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.