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Pedro Hernandez was sentenced Tuesday in the 1979 killing of the 6-year-old New York City boy, whose disappearance sparked decades of investigation and helped create a generation of wary parents.

Tokyo-area hospitals "have their hands full," the Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association says in an open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The group represents some 6,000 primary care doctors.

2: Writer WALTER MOSLEY. His first book, "Devil In A Blue Dress," (Norton) is a hard-boiled detective story starring a black gumshoe up against white prejudice. MOSLEY's mysteries are loosely based on stories his father told him about black culture the 1940's. His latest book is called "A Red Death" (Thorndike). (REBROADCAST FROM 6/8/90)Mystery writer SUE GRAFTON. Her heroine, Kinsey Millhone, is a new breed of hard-boiled detective: competent and self-reliant, thirty-two years old, twice married with no kids, and currently single. The Kinsey Millhone mystery series began with "A is for Alibi" , and continues through the alphabet. GRAFTON's latest mystery is "I is for Innocent" (Fawcett). (REBROADCAST FROM 5

ALISON DES FORGES (pronounced DAY-FORZSH). She's a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her specialty concerns the central African countries of Rwanda and Burundi. She's also the Co-Chair of the International Commission on Human Rights Abuse in Rwanda, and a consultant to Human Rights Watch Africa on Rwanda and Burundi. Rwanda has descended into civil strife since April 6th, when the Rwanda and the Burundi presidents were both killed in a plane crash. Rebels, mostly made up of the minority Tutsi tribe, have battled the Rwandan government's troops and army, which are both dominated by the Hutu majority. An estimated 100,000 Rwandans have been killed in tribal massacres and clashes between troops and civilians since the beginning of the month.

2: Journalist STAN SESSER, who details the successful marketing of American cigarettes in Asian countries in a New Yorker article, (September 6, 1993). SESSER claims the continent of Asia consumes half the world's cigarettes. Of particular interest to American tobacco firms is China -- despite explict laws prohibiting the sale or advertising of foreign cigarettes -- because three hundred million people smoke (more people than the entire population of the United States). An official of the World Health Organization says deaths by cigarettes in China will soon wipe out gains made in preventing deaths from malnutrition and communicable diseases.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews the new collection of stories by Andre Dubus "Dancing After Hours." ( Writer ANDRE DUBUS ("dah-bues"). Dubus' short stories earned him 1991's Bernard Malamud Award from the writers group, PEN. In 1986 DUBUS was crippled when he was hit by a car as he was trying to assist another motorist. We'll broadcast a 1991 interview with DUBUS. (REBROADCAST from 6/25/91). His new collection of essays is "Dancing After Hours." (

Today General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement that could end the seventeen-day strike against two parts plants. The strike has idled most of GM's North American plants and furloughed more than one hundred seventy five thousand workers. Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about what will happen after the union votes on the agreement. (3:30) 6. IMMIGRATION -- The House is due to vote today on a bill overhauling immigration laws. One of its provisions would allow states to deny public schooling to children of illegal immigrants. In addition, the House may follow the Senate's lead by splitting the measure into two parts, separating rules dealing with legal immigrants. The separation could kill attempts to sharply limit the number of legal immigrants. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. Updates are expected. Please be prepared to do new BBS if you use any of these details.

NPR's Steve Inskeep profiles Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords, a moderate Republican who cast a crucial vote against President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut proposal. Sen. Jeffords' tie-breaking ability on close votes in the evenly divided Senate gives him considerable influence. He used it to help reduce the size of the tax cut by about a fourth and divert more than $200 billion of it to pay for special education. Jeffords was just re-elected and has received less criticism in his home-state than from conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C.

An audio postcard from Rick Karr. He knows it's spring, becasue the road repair cres have emerged from hibernation are are tearing-up the streets of Chicago. (2:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. SECURITY, CHINA AND TAIWAN -- In the first of an occassional series on security issues in Asia, NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that the tensions in the Taiwan Strait raise concerns in the US and much of Asia. China's wargames just miles from Taiwan suggest to some a new militarism, and further tip the balance of US sentiment away from China and toward the tiny island that has emerged from dictatorship to democracy.

Fox News had begun to distance itself from Trump recently, as the Jan. 6 panel cast him in harsh light. The FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago has right-wing media, including Fox, snapping back to his defense.