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Linda checks-in with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold who was with the Dole and Buchanan campaigns today -- and with Glenn Frankel who has been writing about Steve Forbes for the Washington Post... about events on the campaign trail today.

Commentator Jack Beatty says Clinton has done everything he can to keep American wages down. He says the re-appointment of Alan Greenspan is a disaster for the American worker...and his other recent appointments, Alice Rivlin and Laurence Meyer are champions of slow economic growth---again, the enemy of the worker.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Andy Kohut. He directs the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. They have a new national survey that suggests Pat Buchanan's populist appeal may be bringing blue collar voters into the Republican fold. But the same rhetoric that wins working class support is alienating traditional Republican voters. LIVE

Commentator Alan Siporin lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he wonders, after the flooding there, why only the people with property receive relief from natural disasters. He wonders why the homeless are overlooked.

Danny speaks with NPR's Nancy Cohen, who was on board one of the Cuban-American ships in a flotilla that headed out to Cuba today to participate in a ceremony honoring the four civilian pilots who were killed last Saturday when Cuban MIGs shot them out of the sky. The flotilla was unable to reach its destination -- the spot where the planes were downed -- because of poor weather.

Danny speaks with journalist Tad Szulc (pronounced: Shultz), who has followed Castro and the Cuban revolution since its inception in 1959. They talk about American efforts to undermine Castro, including the CIA's plots to assassinate the Cuban leader during the 1960's.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that a federal judge has moved the trail of Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols has been moved to Denver. Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the defendents couldn't get a fair trial in the same state where the terrorist attack which killed 169 people had occured. The government wanted the trial in Tulsa, about a hundred miles from Oklahoma City.

After Saturday's South Carolina primary, the candidates will face voters in a number of New England states on Tuesday, as well as in Colorado and Georgia. One of the states where Republicans will be voting is Connecticut, where economic insecurity and taxes are major issues. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

A federal judge has thrown out a suit against GOPAC, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's former political action committee. The judge has rejected Federal Election Commission arguments that the group assisted federal candidates, when it was registered only to help state and local candidates. The FEC had hoped for court help in getting the names of GOPAC's donors, how much they contributed and how the money was used. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

This week, the United States captured first place in the "Olympics of Bread Baking" Championships in Paris, France. Danny speaks to Tom McMahon, the Executive Director of the Bread Bakers Guild of America and a judge at the three-day event. Teams from eight countries participated in the event. McMahon says the American breads were so popular, the international judges took some home with them at the end of the competition.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Bosnia on the peace process in Mostar and Sarajevo. In Mostar, the city once split between Croats and Muslims, the reunification of the central district has been marred by fist-fights between Croat and Muslim youths. In the Serb suburbs of Sarajevo the exodus of Bosnian Serbs continues. Leaders have ordered an evacuation from areas that are to be handed over to the Bosnian government.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the results of the New Hampshire Primary seem to indicate that Lamar Alexander may be the strongest mainstream Republican candidate.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that Pat Buchanan's first place finish in New Hampsire raises some intersting questions for the Republican Party. Republicans, who have built their economic policies around free markets and free trade, have seen a decidedly non-free trade candidate take the first primary of the 1996 elections.

Linda talks with W.D. Wetherall about his novel, "The Wisest Man in America." It tells the story of a New Hampshire farmer named Ferris who has the unusual ability to predict the winner of the state primary, and who has come to be regarded as a political sage.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the efforts of anti-drug activist Herman Wrice to help small towns in the United States fight crack cocaine abuse through grassroots organizing and regularly confronting suspected drug dealers. Civil libertarians are concerned that this approach is tantamount to vigilanteism. If these people are known drug dealers, they argue, they should be arrested, not harrassed.

The Supreme Court is studying an attempt by two former Los Angeles police officers to avoid any further time behind bars for their part in the Rodney King beating. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the fight for the soul of the Republican party got underway in earnest today, as Pat Buchanan, riding the momentum of his New Hampshire victory, campaigned in South Carolina. Buchanan pushed economic nationalism hard and appealed to former Phil Gramm supporters, one of whom, Phyllis Schafely of Eagle Forum fame, joined his team today.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger muses about our obsession with the weather. The subject often works its way into telphon conversations--especially long distance. Its as if we think if we know what the weather will be wecan do something to change it.

President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Dole addressed the National Governors' Association today. NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports both men praised the governors for coming up with a bipartisan compromise on Medicaid and welfare -- two of the biggest federal programs administered by the states and two of the biggest stumbling blocks in negotiations over a federal budget.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that legislation that kept the federal government open also restricted funding of research on human embryos. Opponents of the research say it is unethical. But proponents say it could lead to important understanding that could help improve fertility treatments.