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NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

NPR's David Welna reports on the rising tide of protest against President Ernesto Samper of Colombia who is being accused of accepting money from the Cali drug cartel. Members of Samper's government are distancing themselves from the president...while thousands of students and citizens have taken to the streets demanding Samper's resignation.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the allied military campaign to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nearly five years after the end of the military conflict, United Nations sanctions against Iraq remain in place. NPR's Sunni Khalid visited Baghdad to see the effects of the sanctions on the people in the city and found that the economy has declined considerably in the past five years. Food prices have skyrocketed, the education system has declined, and the hospital system is short of supplies and medicines.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, pledged today that there will not be another government shutdown later this month...when current funding to run the government is due to expire.

President Clinton was in Atlanta today, to commemorate the birthday of Martine Luther King, Junior. We hear remarks the President made at The Reverend Doctor King's former pulpit at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. (1:30) 11. LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL - On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

Commentator Lenny Kleinfeld lives in Los Angeles, where is has NOT been snowing. All the talk of the blizzard on the East Coast has him more than a little homesick for bad weather of the old-fashioned type.

NPR'S Neal Conan reports that Iraq is still considered a military threat in the Middle East, five years after its defeat in the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. But the United States is the dominant force in the region as the protector of the rich Gulf states.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports that as the first southern African nation to go from white minority rule to black majority rule, Zimbabwe could be a model for South Africa in the areas of political and social reform. In the area of land reform, Zimbabwe's policy has been to placate the former rulers: the government has left most of the country's good land in the hands of the small white minority.

slicing off only certain government programs for funding.

Chris Richard has this report on religious worship behind bars. Richard reports that while many prisoners search out the chapel or synagogue on prison grounds out of noble intentions, others use church as an opportunity for deadly deeds. The constant possibility of wrongdoing keeps chaplins and rabbis on their guard even though they say many inmates are sincerely interested in their own spiritual evolution.

Tovia Smith reports that New Hampshire have been inundated with campaign ads in recent weeks as rivals for the Republican presidential nomination try to outdo each other on the airwaves. This unprecedented use of television advertising -- in a state where previous campaigns were waged mostly in living rooms and meeting halls -- is partly due to the massive influx of campaign spending by millionaire businessman Steve Forbes. Some analysts say the increasingly negative ads will only turn off voters.

The Beatles made their last public performance 27 years ago today, on the roof of Apple studios.

The Navy is suspending flights by a fighter squadron, following the crash of one of its F-14 jets in a Nashville Tennessee suburb. Five people died in the accident, including the two fliers aboard the plane. NPR's Martha Raddatz looks at what investigators have determined about the cause.

France's President Jacques Chirac on a state visit to Washington addressed a joint session of Congress and got his loudest applause when he spoke of his decision just this week to cease his nation's nuclear testing. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Commentator Ellen Ullman talks about the fear of becoming obsolete in the computer industry - an industry which changes at an incredibly rapid rate.

This Sunday NBC will broadcast an all-star two-part adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels. Ted Danson has the title role and reviewer Ken Tucker says the production features outstanding special effects, is funny, and remains true to its satiric source.

Times are tough for hospitals in rural areas -- people are moving away, and spending for health care, which these hospitals rely on, is being reduced. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how a federal program is helping a small hospital in western Kansas survive.

This is a poem by Mark O'Brien called "Object of Desire". It is read by Tom Cole and Deborah Williams because O'Brien's vocal capabilities are restricted due to his reliance on an iron lung.

Hapa [HAH-puh] is the name of a band from Hawaii. It's made up of native Hawaiian who's part Chinese and a native New Yorker who's all Irish Catholic. Together they make music that ranges from traditional Hawaiian slack-key guitar to acoustic pop. Heidi Chang reports. There are two Hapa CD's available on the Coconut Grove label.

President Clinton today announced a bi-partisan campaign to reduce teen pregnancies in the U.S. He named Dr. Henry Foster, his failed nominee for surgeon general, to head the campaign. We'll hear some of President Clinton's statement, in which he calls for an end to "children having children."