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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.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & LAURA KNOY

Liane Hansen speaks with zoologist Desmond Morris about his ew 6-part mini-series, "The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human pecies." The series is currently being aired Sunday nights on cable TV's "The earning Channel" throughout the month of January. A companion book also has een written to accompany the series. (Crown Publishers, Inc.) In both, Morris elves into the biology and evolution of human behavior.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on a federally-sponsored program o provide flood insurance to residential and commercial property owners. This overnment support is useless unless property owners purchase the low-cost nsurance, and as it turns out, most Californians do not hold these roperty-saving policies.

Professor and writer ANDRE ACIMAN, author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir." (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The book follows ACIMAN's close-knit, flamboyant Jewish family through 50 years of residence in Alexandria. The family was forced to leave Egypt when ACIMAN was 14, during a long wave of Anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism. The New York Times says, "there is a whole gallery of characters here, vividly realized," as ACIMAN explores the lives and relationships of his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, and finally his own emotions about leaving his idyllic childhood home.

Film director CARL REINER. He was a writer and appeared in Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." He's best-known to baby boomer audiences as the creator and writer of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He also staged several Broadway plays, including "Enter Laughing," which is based on his novel and which he later adapted to the screen. Since then, he has concentrated on film direction, specifically comedies. His films include "Where's Poppa?" "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," "All of Me" "Oh God," and "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool." (REBROADCAST FROM 3/2/89)Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. He got his start as an actor, playing Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. He was the librettist for "Lord Byron," an opera by Virgil Thompson (Koch International Classics, 1992). He's also written the versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul," and he has been a film producer. (REBROADACAST FROM 4/

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE GUATELALAN GOVERNMENT AND LEFTIST GUERILLAS TO END A 30-YEAR-OLD WAR HAVE STALLED OVER THE ISSUE OF PROTECTING THAT COUNTRY'S MAYAN INDIANS. MIKE O'CONNOR REPORTS.

STAMBERG/LETTERS: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

WHITEWATER: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG TALKS WITH NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG ABOUT THE LATEST IN THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports on a strike at a community hospital in Port Jervis, New York, that is going into it's fifth month. The striking workers complain that they are paid as much as 40 percent less than their counterparts at other area hospitals.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Just Cause," the new thriller starring Sean Connery.

Joe speaks with reporter David Marcus in Bogota about the deteriorating relationship between the U-S and Colombia. Washington is frustrated with what it sees as inadequate attempts by Colombian authorities to crack down on drug trafficking.