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NPR's Robert Smith reports the crew of the EP-3 reconnaissance plane is back on American soil. The crew was welcomed to Hawaii in a simple arrival ceremony outside Honolulu. To many of the onlookers, members of the crew are heroes. The pilot, who landed the damaged plane safely in southern China, reassure family members that the crew was well and anxious to see them.

Noah Adams talks with Paul Beaver, a writer for Jane's Defense Weekly, about the use of surveillance planes by China and Russia.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Skopje, Macedonia, on today's visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Meeting with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade that the arrest this month of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic marked a turning point for Serbian society. Serbs are now trying to confront the Milosevic legacy.

NPR's Susan Stamberg speaks with commentator and author Mary Sojourner about her new book of stories about women in the Arizona desert. The book is called Delicate: Stories of Light and Desire.

Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the report by the Navy's Court of Inquiry, which investigated the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fishing boat. The New York Times is reporting that the Court recommends AGAINST a court martial of the skipper.

Lisa talks with author Adrian House about his new bookFrancis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life. Francis, who lived from 1182 to 1226, started out as a party-boy. At age 24, he underwent a religious conversion, and began a spiritual journey that continues to inspire millions of people throughout the world.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham, Alabama, where jury selection begins today in the trial of one of the last surviving suspects in the bombing of a black church in 1963. Thomas Blanton Jr., a former Ku Klux Klan member, is accused of helping to plant the bomb that killed four girls and injured more than 20 others.

Two men died this week whose names may not be immediately recognizable, but whose ideas had a real impact on our society.

Reverend Carroll Pickett has stood alongside 95 inmates during their executions in Huntsville, Texas. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Reverend Pickett about Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to allow injured victims and victim family members in the Oklahoma City Bombing to watch Timothy McVeigh's execution next month. To hear more from Reverend Pickett and other observers of Huntsville's death chamber, you can listen to the radio documentary Witness to an Execution produced by Stacy Abramson and David Isay. Just go to www.soundportraits.org.