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We play an excerpt from a program which was broadcast on VE-Day, 1945. 'On a Note of Triumph' was written and produced by Norman Corwin, one of the most famous radio producers of his day.

On this mother's day, we share this story by writer Bev Donofrio. She recalls a mother's day holiday in the 1970's, when she and some women friends went out for a picnic and baseball game with their kids. The moral: it's tough to be a mom...but it has it's good sides too.

Daniel talks to Leslie Savin, advertising critic for The Village Voice. She says that there is a new trend in t.v. advertising to convince viewers that they can assert their individuality by buying mass market products... Red Dog beer and Saab cars.

President Clinton today announced the closing of a two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue next to the White House. The decision was taken to enhance security at the executive mansion. Danny opens the show from Pennsylvania avenue, describing what the new space looks like, and talking to people there to get their reaction.

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the Russian film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.

Daniel visits the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation in Washington state. In recent years, the tribe has experienced an unusually high rate of negative pregnancy outcomes. After three years of antagonism with the federal Indian Health Service, they have been improving the quality of their health care.

Daniel talks with Jim Wallis, author of the "Soul of Politics". Wallis says both Republicans and Democrats are entrenched in old ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to the topic of welfare reform. Wallis says that both the left and the right have some good ideas when it comes to solving welfare woes, but he says real reform will only occur when both the public and private sector begins to take collective responsibility for the country's problems.

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

Jacki talks with nationally syndicated political cartoonists Tom Toles of the Buffalo News and U.S. News & World Report....and Ed Gamble of the Florida Times-Union...about the state of political cartooning today. They say today there's more material and more cartoonists than ever before.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.

Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.

Daniels talks with Russell Freedman, author of "Kids at Work, Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor". (Clarion

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Kobe Japan. She follows around police officials who are helping people cope with this weeks devastating earthquake.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead reports that it's been nearly a year after the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam has been lifted. One of the more unusual new joint ventures has been the importation of Holstein cows.

For many homeless people who contract HIV, it's likely their last days will be in a homeless shelter or a hospital surrounded by strangers. But, in Washington D.C. - there exists an alternative for a few men who are ready and willing to take it...Joseph's House. This community of formerly homeless men with AIDS learn to live together AND to die together here as a family - something that many of them haven't had for most of their lives. Daniel Zwerdling takes us for a visit to Joseph's House.

Daniel talks with freelance journalist Shane Cave who covers business and economics in New Zealand. Cave compares analyzes what's happend in New Zealand in the 10 years since a new political party was voted in and radically changed the way the government there did business. He also talks of how the political changes there are similar to what the Republican Party here wants to do.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the latest attempts to curb gun violence in southern California. Several municipalities are introducing legislation that would require gun owners to register with authorities each time they purchase bullets for their weapon.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on today's meeting between President Bill Clinton and governors and congressmen in which they discussed ways to revamp the nation's welfare system.

Daniel visits Place Pigalle restaurant in Seattle and learns how to make their signature dis, "Mussels Pigalle." Chef Will MacNamara says that shellfish shouldn't be overcooked... once they've opened just wide enough to stick your little finger in, they are done.

Daniel talks with NPR's Jacki Lyden who is in Teheran, Iran. Today is the 16th anniversary of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. They will talk about how Iran is becoming increasingly democratic and it's culture is adapting many of the trappings of Western democracies such as satellite television.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the controversy over a federally mandated water filtration system in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Officials there say that the 3-million dollar system is unecessary because their water is already clean.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on how Italy's fascist party has renamed itself, shedding it's legacy of Black Shirts and stiff-armed salutes, in hopes of attracting a new generation of supporters.