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Joyce Russell of member station W-O-I reports on programs that are trying to save the institution of the family farm by linking retiring farmers with young people who want to farm. Some programs find creative financing for the purcahse of small farms, others help new farmers find mentors in experienced farmers who don't want a full-time farm anymore but want to keep in contact with their land.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

2: Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, ARYEH NEIER (ARIA NIRE). He was in Sarejevo earlier this month. His group has just come out with a second volume of their report on war crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Commentator Maureen Corrigan has a review of a new biography of a turn of the century journalist: "Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist" (Times Books).

Last year, four white students sued The University f Texas Law School for reverse discrimination. They said their Constitutional ights were violated by the university's practice of giving admission preference o Black and Mexican-American students. The District Court reached a mixed ecision at the close of last year's trial, and NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on he current action by the students to appeal that decision on a Federal level

David Barnett reports on the life and work of author Dawn owell. Her career as a writer spans four decades, yet she is little known. In 987, Gore Vidal, writing in the New York Review of Books, called her "..our est comic novelist. She should have been as widely read as Hemingway or the arly Fitzgerald." Primarily because she is a witty female writer on New York hemes, she has been compared to and overshadowed by Dorothy Parker.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH IRA LIPMAN. IN 1957, AS A HIGH-SCHOOL SENIOR, MR. LIPMAN WAS THE PRIME SOURCE FOR JOHN CHANCELLOR, WHEN HE WAS REPORTING ON THE FEDERALLY-ORDERED INTEGRATION OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. THEY MET AGAIN THIS WEEK WHEN MR. LIPMAN UNDERWROTE AN AWARD IN JOHN CHANCELLOR'S NAME FOR THE U-PENN'S ANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on the status of Illinois' public mental health system. Despite the dismal rating given to state mental health facilities, state officials maintain that their hospitals offer a clean and healthy environment for patients. There is a debate now materializing between mental health providers as to whether the state should administer care through state hospitals or smaller, community based facilities.

speaks with Walter Mossberg, who writes about computers for the Wall Street Journal, about the troubles currently faced by Apple Computer. The company recently reported a $69 million dollar loss in it's last quarter, and is currently negotiating with at least one other computer company interested in buying it out. Mossberg says that the same culture which created Apple's many computer innovations, became arrogant and lost touch with what the competition was doing and with what consumers wanted.

The massive coastal fortresses that served as slave trading posts during the 16th to the 18th centuries have become the backbone of Ghana's tourism industry. Jennifer Ludden reports that for many African Americans, visiting the forts is a highly emotional experience. Some are coming away from the official tours both angry and disappointed by the seemingly casual attitude shown by their Ghanain guides to a painful chapter of their history.