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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on Texas Senator Phil Gramm, who has been campaigning for the Republican nomination for president for well over a year and the first big test comes Feb. 12 in the Iowa caucuses. That will be his chance to see if he can close the gap between himself and Senator Bob Dole, who is presumed to be well ahead of all the other GOP contenders. Gramm is confident he can show his candidacy gaining strength. With a message designed to win over fiscal and social conservatives, Gramm says he's the candidate best able to carry out the Republican agenda, and that the key to his viability is carrying out the promises his party made in 1994.

Linda Werthimer talks with White House advisor Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the national economic advisor to the President about the suspension of budget negotiations. After 50 hours of talks, the Republicans and the President still have not reached a settlement of the terms of the budget. Ms. Tyson tells us what the White House hopes to achieve and preserve in the budget, and explains the differences between the Republicans and White House hopes for Medicare and tax cuts.

NPR senior news anaylst Daniel Schorr says that the budget impasse may evolve into an election issue, as the talks aimed at resolving the shutdown fail to produce swift results and the prospect of another shutdown looms.

but he doubts there's the political will in the White House to do so, which might explain why Mr. Clinton's party lost the votes of workers in the 1994 congressional elections.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on how other cities and states have dealt with the problem New York City is currently dealing with: reforming the way child welfare is directed.

Linda speaks with Carl Sferrazza (SPHERE- RAZ-ZAH) Anthony who is author of a two vlume book about American 1st Ladies. Mr. Anthony takes us through the history of the attacks, both political and journalistic, that first ladies have endured.

about former Polish President Lech Walesa's decision to go back to his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard after he lost last month's election

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conference of 1996. The President fielded numerous questions about the budget impasse with Congress and about allegations regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton's roles in Whitewater and in the White House travel office. The President also defended his decision to visit U.S. troops stationed in Bosnia.

NPR's Joe Palca explains 'sublimation,' the direct transition from a solid to a gas without any liquid phase. Snow, to some degree, disappears through this process.

White House Spokesman Michael McCurry has said Mrs. Clinton's appearance before the grand jury was "about as welcome as a trip to the dentist's office." We check with one member of the maligned profession for reaction.

NPR's John Burnett reports that while most prisons across the country are trying to make life more difficult for prisoners (cutting back funding for basketball courts, initiating chain gangs, etc.), in Texas, which has the nation's largest prison population, prisoners are being given more access to one perk: the telephone. But Burnett says from the prison perspective, there's a business incentive for the move.

For the record, we hear the speech Ronald Reagan gave on the evening after the Challenger exploded.

about the expanding political crisis in Colombia. This week Colombia's legislature begins an extraordinary session to deal with allegations that President Ernesto Samper accepted millions of dollars from the Cali drug cartel for his 1994 presidential campaign.

presidential caucuses next Tuesday, before New Hampshire or Iowa. Republican candidates have been divided in their campaign strategies.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger says that the Superbowl is one of our main national observances. It is purified ritual and as gripping as any celebration that was invented earlier. He figures we must be a nation starved for drama -- so much so that we have to create our own. We lack the public spectacles of the Romans, Greeks and Mayas and so we demand it from our professional sports.

editor of "Inside Track" magazine, about what will be the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, called "Superman: The Escape".

Satire from Harry Shearer.

Daniel speaks with Ernie Manuelito and Cal Tuchin of radio station KTNN in Window Rock, Arizona...about tonight's first-ever broadcast of a Super Bowl in the Navajo language.

and the growing criticism of him even by members of his own cabinet.

caucuses and how they might affect Bob Dole's prospects for winning the Republican Presidential nomination. Arnold has been on the campaign trail in both Iowa and New Hampshire with Dole and other Republican candidates.

due to go before the Supreme Court today on the copyright relating to computer software. >

Danny goes to the National Zoo here in Washington to examine efforts to teach orangutans how to communicate with humans. The zoo has developed an exhibit called "The Think Tank". We meet with Rob Shumaker, one of the key researchers at The Think Tank who shows us how he's teaching the orangutans a new, specially developed language of symbols. The hope, Shumaker says, is that one day the orangs will learn enough of this symbolic language that communication between humans and primates would be possible, at least on a limited basis.

on the situation he found there.