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Commentator Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says the anti-terrorism bill that just passed the House is a sham. He says it does nothing to prevent terrorism because it is a piece of toothless legislation. Foxman adds there is no contradiction between freedom and security.

Noah talks with Rosanne Cash, who has written a new collection of short fiction called "Bodies of Water". We visit her at her favorite restaurant in Greenwich Village, to talk about her writing life, inspiration, technique, and how being a singer/songwriter for more than twenty years has prepared her for the prose she is now writing. IN STEREO NOTE: "Bodies of Water" will be available in most bookstores by early next week (the week of 3/18/96). The publisher is Hyperion Books.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports..Whitewater special counsel Kenneth Starr today expanded his investigation. He will look into whether former presidential aide David Watkins lied about Hillary Clinton's role in the firing of employees of the White House Travel Office.

Commentator Mickey Edwards wants to know when the terms -- liberals and progressives became synonomous? A clarification is need, because he says they have nothing to do with one another.

Jennie Schmidt of member station KPLU reports on the impending shooting of recidivist sea lions in Seattle. It's the same group that returns year after year to shipping locks in Puget Sound where steelhead trout swim upriver to spawn. There aren't many trout left, and wildlife biologists, having failed to dissuade the hungry sea lions, now want to shoot them.

President Clinton today unveiled the detailes of his 1.64 trillion dollar budget. It includes a new tax credit for families with small children, and a tax deduction for college fees, while it increases capital gains taxes for some investors. The budget increases federal spending by four per cent. The White House says the budget will lead to a balanced budget by the year 2002, and the President called on Congress to pass a balanced budget before the election. But Republican leaders were critical today. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. (5:00) -b- 9. IRS & 2nd BAPTIST - NPR's Lynn Neary reports on a new initiative that targets churches for I-R-S investigations. "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" filed a complaint today with the IRS against Second Baptist Church of Houston. The complaint accuses the church of violating its tax exempt status by publishing specific, partisan voting instructions in a project pamphlet. Second Baptist Church of Houston is one of the largest churches in the country with more than 22-thousand members.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment report dropped sharply in February to 5.5 percent. Data released by the Labor Department this morning show exceptionally strong job creation last month. Economists said the employment report shows an economy on the mend that will not need further interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve.

NPR's Steve Inskeep visits The Strand, a used bookstore in New York City, to find out what happens to all those political biographies and other books tied to campaigns, once the campaigns are over -- and sometimes even before.

Noah talks with Joel and Ethan Coen. the brothers behind the film, "Fargo." The characters and a certain time are important for their movies. In this case, it's 1987 in the upper Midwest, in the dead of winter, when businessmen wear goofy hats and big down parkas over their otherwise elegant suits and have to waste time scrapping ice off their cars. The Coen brother grew up in St. Louis, a Minneapolis suburb.

Commentator Mickey Edwards has been teaching a course this year about how to conduct a political campaign. He isn't sure that Bob Dole would do so well in the course and therefore offers him a few tips.

Monday night is Oscar Night. Filmaker and commentator Joe Queenan has seen the nominees and says that there isn't anything that stands out this year because all films are so similar, except one, that is... "Mr. Holland's Opus". And Queenan is very disturbed by the selection of this film.

In the wake of the suicide bombings in Israel, the House is once again taking up a controversial anti-crime bill. The bill would give federal law enforcement officials new rights in their investigations of terrorist crimes. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that opponents from across the political spectrum say these measures would infringe on privacy rights and would inevitably lead to the conviction and imprisonment of innocent people.

Noah and Linda read from the latest batch of listeners' comments.

Charles Scanlon reports from Seoul on heightened tensions between North and South Korea. The North said it would no longer respect the integrity of the demilitarized zone, and the South responded by stepping up its surveillance activities.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Peter Kendall, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. Kendall has been piecing together the story of Theodore Kaczynski - the man who is being held in a Montana jail, suspected of being the UNABOMBER....Kendall has been writing about the agony of David Kaczynski - the man who helped bring his brother in from the cold.

We remember the 34 other passengers who perished yesterday when there plane crashed just outside Dubrovnik. In addition to Secretary Brown, the passengers included Commerce officials, business executives, journalists and two pilots.

Chris Nuttall reports that Operation Provide Comfort, a US-led force based in Turkey to protect the Kurds in Northern Iraq from Saddam Hussein, is in a tenous position after five years of operation. Politicians in Turkey want foreign troops off their soil, but others are concerned that removing the troops will renew instability in the region.

President Clinton was in Oklahoma City today, remembering those who perished nearly a year ago when a bomb destroyed the Federal office building they were in.

We catch up on collegiate basketball news... Robert Siegel talks with two journalist from Sports Illustrated Larry Berke and Kelly Anderson, about the N-C-double-A Final Four Tournament, for both the Men's and Women's.

a new government took power. In Freetown, Sierra Leone. There was a handover of power by the military, to the new civilian president -- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah [ah-med TEE-jin KAH-bah], is the first democratically-elected leader in Sierra Leone since the late 1970's. The rebels agreed earlier this week to extend a two-month cease-fire. The BBC's West Africa correspondent David Bamford reports.