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This first day of May is Labor day for most of the world. From Paris, David Culhane reports that while people are celebrating today with demonstrations, parades and speechs...they are anxious about the future. Unemployment is high, job insecurity is rising and the government is planning to cut social security and other welfare benefits.

Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on the importance of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's visit to the United States...

against a Mitsubishi auto plant in Illinois has raised certain cultural issues. One question is how to maintain equal opportunity for women in work environments typically dominated by men.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports..Majority Leader Bob Dole acknowleges that he trails President Clinton by a wide margin among female voters. But Dole says the gender gap is merely a perception problem and his plan to address it is to emphasize his legislative record.

Jennifer Griffin reports that funeral services were held today for people who died when Israel bombed a refugee camp in southern Lebanon last week. The deaths helped spur the United States to seek a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the oil industry is countering statements from politicians about climbing gas prices by pointing to some basic market forces: supply and demand. The oil industry maintains there has been no price gouging and that the oil industry's rate of return is actually lower than average for overall manufacturing.

between the Montana Freemen and federal agents. For five weeks, federal mediators have tried and failed to make a deal with the Freemen. Now, the stand-off may take on a new tone as Federal prosecutors reassess the situation and threaten increased pressure on the Freemen.

Noah and Robert read letters send in from listeners. Listeners can send letters to LETTERS-ATC: 635 Massachussetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Or by E-mail to ATC@NPR.org.

President Clinton has been testifying on videotape before the Whitewater jury in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a defense witness, called by his former real estate business partners James and Susan McDougal. The McDougals and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker face fraud charges in connection with federally-backed loans. The president has not been charged. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on Mr Clinton's testimony.

among those raising money for this year's election campaigns. Fund-raisers are collecting record amounts for Congressional candidates.

President Clinton's spokesman said today the president would sign a bill that discourages same-sex marriages. The legislation would give each state the right to NOT recognize same-sex marriages performed in another state. Gay and lesbian advocates say that would deprive them of their rights as American citizens. NPR's Chitra Ragavan looks at the status of the pending bill.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that since April 27th, the Olympic Torch has been making its way across the country and is scheduled to arrive in Atlanta for the start of the Games in July. By the time the torch completes its journey, it will have traveled more than fifteen thousand miles through forty-two states, and be carried by more than ten thousand people. Wherever it passes, small town or big city, the Torch seems to capture the spirit of the Olympics for those who watch and those who participate.

that has changed the way scientists study the sun. A spacecraft called SOHO was launched last December. In its orbit around the sun... instead of the Earth... SOHO is providing accurate and startling new data.

Commentator Marion Winik wonders if her drinking is getting out of hand. The tell tale signs: reading about her alcohol related adventures in a local sports column, and finding solace in a book about alcoholic writers. However, she is comforted by the fact that she is the picture of sobriety compared to her idol, Dorothy Parker.

The search for clues in the crash of ValuJet Flight 592 continued in the Florida Everglades today. On Sunday, investigators began using ground-mapping radar to help locate objects in the murky swamp where the plane crashed. Noah speaks with Tom Fenner, geologist and sales director with Geophysical Survey Systems, the company that sent the radar, about the difficulties search crews are experiencing at the crash site.

The formerly-mismanaged Chicago Housing Authority has been run by HUD --- the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development --- for almost a year now. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that HUD is taking a long-term approach to revamping the city's public housing.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by CompuServe Inc., the second largest on-line service, to join the wave of private on-line service providers that are exchanging their private, proprietary software for the open language of the World Wide Web. The move leaves the nation's number-one access provider, America Online, as the sole remaining service to require subscribers to use special software and access points to reach the Internet.

casino/hotel/entertainment center, the so-called "Stratosphere," which lays claim to being the highest building west of the Mississippi with the worlds highest roller coaster.

Congressional budget committees took up the Republicans' new proposal for the fiscal year 1997 budget today. The plan, intended to lead to a balanced federal budget in six years, includes a smaller tax cut and fewer cuts in domestic spending than previous proposals. Congressional Democrats criticized the budget plan, but President Clinton called it "movement in the right direction". NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Diedre Berger reports from Hamburg, Germany, on the trial in which an American is accused of distributing neo-nazi propaganda...an illegal act in Germany. Gary Lauck of Lincoln, Nebraska, was arrested in Denmark last year and extradicted to Germany for the trial.

NPR'S Brooke Gladstone reports on an Austin Texas television station's effort to reduce the violence in its local newscasts. News executives at K-VUE have adopted experimental guidelines for determining whether certain violent pictures or stories should even air. Its local competitors accuse K-VUE of arrogantly filtering the news. Yet the station's newscasts are number one in its market.

Commentator David Crystal says there are certainly one million words in the English language, and when you consider the new words that are being assimilated from English-speaking places around the world, there's almost no telling how big the language is.

Commentator Frederica Matthews-Green reflects on the phenomenon of everyday people who demonstrate deep faith. She tells the story of Michael, a local plumber and fellow member of a small Eastern Orthodox congregation, who recently went off to become a monk. As the congregation tearfully sent him off, Matthews-Green noted the extraordinary number of people like Michael who live lives of faithful devotion. Negative images of religious people in the media are unfair stereotype, she says, because most deeply religious people are just like the rest of us, and Michael.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have found evidence that competition between the sexes could have a basis in evolution. Studies of fruit flies being released today found that successive generations of males evolved superior ability to pass on their genes. But it came at the expense of females -- the male fruit flies' sperm became toxic.

is likely to affect Israel's Labor Party, which had been in power four years.