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that Ford Motor Company has announced what could be the largest recall program in the history of the auto industry. Ford is offering to fix faulty ignition switches on more than 8 million vehicles manufactured between 1988 and 1993. The ignition switches can short circuit, leaving Ford vehicles vulnerable to fire.

on the transformation of Hezbollah from a politically weak party to a force that far transcends the number of seats in parliament. Each day of fighting has turned the Lebanese to look to Hezbollah as an expression of the national will.

Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut announced al-the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Estimates are that about 150 Lebanese had been killed in the fighting and more than 400 wounded. Hafez Assad in Damascus said the ceasefire was not substitute of peace. Jennifer Griffin reports from Beirut.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from a UN-controlled refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. Whatever may be happening on diplomatic circles, refugees on the ground see no end to the disruption of their lives.

The man who made the Corvette Classic into a legend died Sunday. Zora Duntov (DUN-toff) was a Russian engineer and race car driver. Two years after the first Corvette appeared, Duntov was hired as an engineer at Cheverolet and began changing the Corvette into a "muscle car." He was 86. (1:30) (IN S

Congressional investigators say the Energy Department has overstated the business for U-S firms that was generated by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's trade missions overseas. Her critics in Congress have criticized the cost of the trips but O'Leary says they created a net gain in exports. NPR's John Nielsen has a report on a hearing today about the claims.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on how the war in Liberia has affected the country's Lebanese community. The Lebanese have been in Liberia for about a hundred years, and they control much of business. The war has driven most of the original community of fifteen thousand Lebanese out of the country. About two hundred are holding out, however, including two Lebanese who have kept the capital's only hotel running despite the city's plunge into anarchy over the past month.

Mitsubishi Motors shut down two assembly-line shifts today and paid for more than two thousand workers to travel to Chicago and protest an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment lawsuit against the company. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the company-sponsored rally is unprecedented.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the vote by the Palistinian parliament-in-exile to revoke sections of the PLO charter calling for Israel's destruction. The vote, which was boycotted by radical members of the PLO, was hailed by Israel as an historic move.

Clarinetist, bandleader, and curmudgeon...but kind of a right-on curmudgeon. Shaw quit playing music more than thirty years ago...just when he had what most might consider "it all": money, fame, beautiful wives (lots of them). Now he lives alone and writes novels and short stories. Dean Olsher visited him at home and has this report.

Robert talks with Brian Hanrahan of the BBC about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to Syria. Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus to discuss the possibility of securing a ceasefire in Lebanon. President Clinton sent Christopher on a diplomatic shuttle to the Middle East after Israeli shelling killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians last Thursday.

Noah talks with Bobby Plump, who scored the winning shot in the 1954 Milan Indiana high school basketball championship which was the depicted in the movie "Hoosiers". Plump organized the group "Friends of Hoosier Hysteria," to fight against a change in the traditional one-class tournament system. The group lost its fight today when the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted today to change to a multi class tournament format based on school enrollment.

Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Ted Clark about the visit of Israeli Prime Minister to the White House. President Clinton and Prime Minister Peres are considering increased cooperation between the US and Isreal along with continuing joint efforts to fight terrorism.

Noah talks to Fred Davis, a computer consultant and author of "Windows '95 Bible." Davis is at the Internet World conference in San Jose, California. He says that the big new technologies at the convention talk... they allow voice conversations, like phone conversations, over the Internet. The URL for the convention is HTTP://www.iworld.com/

NPR's Neal Conan reports that today is the 35th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. On April 17, 1961, a brigade of Cuban volunteers trained by the Central Intelligence Agency landed at a remote spot on the southern coast of Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The bungled invasion was a military and political disaster for the United States and President John F. Kennedy. And, while the Cold War is now over, the Bay of Pigs remains a rallying cry for the Castro regime, which still uses the threat of American intervention to justify political repression.

NPR's David Molpus reports that only a tiny fraction of U.S. businesses extend benefits to "domestic partners," but in recent years that has started to change. Several hundred businesses have discovered that they can expand the traditional definition of family...and not hurt the bottom line.

Bob Mondello reviews HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF, a movie that's literally about love in the time of cholera. It's a swashbuckling romance from the director of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

After the Oklahoma City bombing, the country suddenly took note of the rhetoric coming from far-right radical groups such as the numerous citizen militias and separatists such as the Posse Comitatus. Now, reports NPR's Howard Berkes, similar links are being made between the suspected Unabomber and the inflammatory language of some radical environmental groups.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that America's role in bringing about a ceasefire in Lebanon teaches us that multilateral diplomacy is on the wane, and big stick diplomacy is in. It is the world's superpower, the U.S., Gjelten says, that other nations turn to when they want diplomatic assistance.