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ONE YEAR AFTER SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST FREE ELECTIONS, NPR'S MICHAEL SKOLER REPORTS THAT DEEP SEEDED SUSPICIONS OF THAT COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT REMAINS.

NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS FROM TOKYO ON THE LATEST ON EFFORTS BY JAPANESE POLICE TO FIND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONDAY'S LETHAL GAS ATTACK ON TOKYO SUBWAYS.

NPR'S TED CLARK REPORTS THAT ALTHOUGH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT REMAINS POLITICALLY REPRESSIVE AND COMMUNIST, CONFIDENCE IN THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC FUTURE IS GROWING, AND CHINESE EXPATRIATES ARE MOVING BACK.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the details of the capture yesterday of Columbian drug lord Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela. Columbia's defense minister says that Orejuela's capture is likely to fracture the Cali operation.

NPR's Richard Harris reports the Congress may weaken The Clean Water Act. The House this week approved a measure that would allow the dumping of more industrial wastes and reduce the amount of land designated as federally protected wetlands.

Jennifer Ludden from member station WBUR in Boston reports that increasingly new Asian immigrants faced with the prospect of daycare are sending their children back home to China where their grandparents take care of them.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH BBC REPORTER CHARLES SCANLON IN SEOUL, KOREA, WHERE THE SAMPOONG DEPARTMENT STORE COLLAPSED LAST THURSDAY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE.

MATT JACKSON OF MEMBER STATION WUFT IN GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA, REPORTS ON A RIVER BAPTISM HE RECENTLY ATTENDED IN THE SUWANEE (SWAN-ee) RIVER.

Delegates at the United Nations met last week to discuss he creation of a permanent international criminal court. But NPR's Trevor Rowe ROH) reports that the U-S is skeptical about the idea.

NPR'S PATRICIA NEIGHMOND REPORTS ON THE RELEASE THIS WEEK OF THE REPUBLICANS' PLAN TO REFORM THE MEDICARE SYSTEM, AND ON YESTERDAY'S PUBLIC HEARING ABOUT HOW AND WHETHER THEIR PLAN WOULD WORK.