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Liane Hansen visits the AIDS quilt on display this weekend in ashington D.C. We hear from several visitors, who tell us why they came to see he quilt. The quilt, which carries some 70,000 names, stretches over one mile n the Washington Mall, from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol uilding.

Noah talks with Shawn Riley, the administrator of C.O.A.S.T....the Centralized Officer-Assistance System Terminal based in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Riley talks about his idea to bring a version of the local "Chester County's Most Wanted" cable television program into local movie theaters to help find people with outstanding arrest warrants.

Noah talks with Craig Masback, who is in Atlanta covering the Olympic track and field events for N-B-C. Masback talks about Namibian sprinter Frank Fredericks who won two silver medals in the 200 and 400 meter race.

Like an actor who refuses to watch his own movies, author Michael Chabon says he can't stand to read his books. On Morning Edition, Chabon and fellow writers Jane Smiley and John Edgar Wideman share their thoughts about the nature of writing in a virtual "salon" styled after the Algonquin Round Table. Hear a longer version of their discussion online.

Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel read some our listners letter's. To contact All Things Considered, the address is All things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington D-C, 20001. To contact the program via e-mail, the address is ATC at NPR dot ORG.

- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu retired today as Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa. For the record, we play an excerpt from a sermon Tutu gave at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in December, 1984.

Linda talks with Mike Woitalla, Senior Editor of Soccer America magazine. Major League Soccer had a successful inaugural season, with its championship being won last night by the D.C United soccer team from Washington. Woitalla thinks this success is due in large part to aggressive marketing to Hispanics, a group that had been ignored in previous attempts to market soccer in the United States.

His songs are the subject of a new C-D called " >Tell Me Something: The Songs of Mose Allison." Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, and Ben Sidran all appear on the disc. They're among the dozens of other musicians who've been influenced by Allison's words and music.

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many surrounding areas. The historic C and O canal is once again in danger only a month after a $25 million repair job following the winter flood.