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President Clinton was in Greeleyville, South Carolina today to visit the place where an African-American church was burned down last year. He also went to the site of the new Mount Zion AME Church, where he called on all Americans to help put an end to the recent string of church fires. We'll hear excepts from his speech.

As the 11th International AIDS Conference convenes in Vancouver, British Columbia, scientists report that they now understand better how HIV causes AIDS. Recently approved drug therapies, combining old anti-viral drugs and the new protease (pro-TEE-ase) inhibitors, have been successful in reducing the amount of virus in the blood. The health of people with the AIDS virus has improved -- they gain weight, some skin rashes disappear and their energy returns. A source says the new treatments may not be a cure...but they're the next best thing. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

- Daniel speaks with Dr.Donald Murphy, who is director of a group in Colorado that is drafting guidelines for medical care. Dr.Murphy says the cost of many medical procedures make them impractical in certain situations. His group is particularly concerned about the over-use of expensive procedures in cases where the patient has very little chance of survival. Despite the controversy surrounding his work, Dr.Murphy argues that American society must face economic realities and practice medicine accordingly.

The Supreme Court ruled today that police who search cars for evidence of a crime during traffic stops are not violating a Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The case involved two men who were convicted of drug possession when Washington, DC vice officers searched their car after stopping them for a traffic violation. In a separate decision, the Court also ruled today that even defendents who leave the country to escape criminal prosecution are entitled to challenge forfeiture of their property in court. That case involved an alleged drug dealer whose property was seized after he escaped charges by moving to Switzerland. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Robert talks with Jim Burnett, the former chair of the National Transportation and Safety Board (1991), about ways the Federal Aviation Administration could improve commercial airline safety. Burnett is now a transportation consultant in Clinton, Arkansas.

that authorities have arrested suspects in connection with recent fires at two black churches. They say one of the fires appears to have been racially motivated, while the other was not.

about last night's results at the olympic Track and Field trials. Carl Lewis qualified for his fifth Olympic Games... an unprecedented accomplishment for a male U.S. track and field athlete.

for parties to present their final lists of candidates running in the September election. The big question is the status of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.

Robert talks to Robert Gates, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from November of 1991 to January of 1993. He has written the new book "From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War." Gates says that many foreign policy decisions that are credited to Ronald Reagan, including supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, were actually policies secretly started by Jimmy Carter.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that one of Japan's biggest companies is implicated in a growing scandal involving copper trading. Investigators in Britain and the United States are looking into whether the company may have approved of the actions of its star trader to allegedly hoard copper to help drive up its price.