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Pshychologist and commentatro Drew Westen, in light of the recent Freud bashing that has been going on, defends the man.

President Clinton submits his budget outline for Fiscal Year '97 today. NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports it's one of the least consequential budget submissions in US history because the White House and Congress are still deadlocked over the Fiscal Year '96 budget.

with the issue of tort reform. Spurred by negative reaction over the state's high punitive damage awards, the governor wanted a cap of $750,000 in some cases. The business community wanted a smaller cap for all cases.

on new Pentagon precautions to protect troops from landmines in Bosnia.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu is desperately trying to finish a novel and wonders if he needs a relief novelist to come in and tie up all the loose ends and loose characters he has created.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that promised welfare reform is unlikely to be passed this year.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that Russian President Yeltsin's former top economic advisor has issued a dire warning about Russian politics. Anatoly Chubais ((Chew-BIGH-ess)) today told Western businessmen and political leaders that there will be bloodshed if the Communists come back to power in the June presidential elections.

NPR's Joanne Silberner looks at the Medicaid compromise unanimously agreed to by the nation's governors. It gives states more power in administering the program while guaranteeing that certain nation-wide benefits for the poor and disabled are maintained.

Robert talks with Dr. Robert Williams, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, about newly discovered information about galaxies. Based on preliminary data captured by the Hubble telescope, there are believed to be 5 times as many galaxies as we thought until now. Instead of 10 billion galaxies, the sample of the universe studied suggests there are more like 50 billion. Also, the galaxies closer to us are more distinct in shape. The older galaxies, 8 to 10 billion light years from earth, are amorphous in shape.

which has patterned its very different educational approach after a highly successful method used in Reggio Amelia, Italy. The innovative method is being met with great interest by American educators.

Bob Mondello reviews a French film called "French Twist."

As Lebanon marks a year since a huge blast at the Beirut port, the sister of one of the victims is still working to pick up the pieces of her life and continue her search for justice.

There's a book just out called The Here and Now. It's about a chance meeting that turns one man's world upside down. Our reviewer Alan Cheuse thinks author Robert Cohen has done a masterful job with this book, which he finds comic and suspenseful. (Scribners)

Ed Thompson reports on last night's plane crash of a charter jetliner off the Dominican Republic, and the efforts to recover survivors and bodies in the shark infested waters. All 189 passengers and crew are feared dead.

Linguist Hugh Matthews tells Noah Adams about mourning for who may have been the last known speaker of the Catawba Indian language. He recounts the years he spent with Red Thunder Cloud, a colorful person known at tribal gatherings for his dances, songs, and stories.

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.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that an experiment this past week in trying to raise the level of political debate among citizens met with limited success. Sponsors and many of the 459 participants in the National Issues Convention in Austin, Texas, said their deliberations on issues such as the economy and family showed that people with widely different views could reach some agreement. But critics noted that only a few of the main presidential candidates participated in what had been billed as a major meeting between politicians and citizens.

Linda talks with David Brooks of the Weekly Standard and Paul West of the Baltimore Sun about the Republican presidential candidates, Whitewater and the week in which House Speaker Newt Gingrich beat a tactical retreat from his hard line on the budget.

tour in support of Republican Congressmen. Despite low public approval numbers, Gingrich has drawn large crowds both supporters and protesters. And his appearances have helped raise lots of campaign money for Republican incumbents.

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.

A former presidential aide testified before a House committee today about some notes he wrote in 1993 regarding the firings of White House travel office employees. The notes mention conversations in which third parties told the witness that Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted the employees fired. Mrs Clinton has said she did not direct any dismissals, and NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the witness testified that she did not tell him to fire them.

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.

slicing off only certain government programs for funding.

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.