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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the future of Medicare, he health insurance system that caters specifically to elderly and disabled mericans. With the Republican promise to balance the budget on the 1995 ongressional docket, some advocates for seniors are beginning to wonder when nd if cuts will be directed at Medicare funds.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr reflects on the dismissal of ouse historian Christina Jeffrey by Speaker Newt Gingrich.

NPR's Brook Gladstone reports on the latest events in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Russian troops appear to be poised to occupy the capitol city of Grozny.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that free oil shipments to North Korea are beginning in exchange for the government's abandonment of nuclear weapons. Republicans say that the deal isn't tough enough on the North Koreans.

Many legal immigrants to the United States are rushing to get their U.S. citizenship these days. Julia McEvoy reports from Chicago that immigrants there have become concerned about their status since the passage of Proposition 187 in California and because of ongoing threats by Republicans that some benefits should be waived for legal immigrants.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:20 This week's on-air puzzle player lives in Vero Beach, Florida and listens to QCS, Fort Pi

Since July, arts educators have been holding a series of own meetings on arts and education standards, and the role arts play in ducation in general. NPR's Phyllis Joffe reports that the results of these eetings will be released at a Getty conference here in Washington.

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.

Madeline Brand of member station WBGO in Newark reports on a proposal in the NJ state legislature which would force applicants for drivers licenses to take their test in English. New Jersey currently offers the test in a dozen languages.

Nothern California is still at the mercy of on-going rain torms, and the Russian River in Sonoma County has risen far above normal evels. Chris Arnold of KQED in San Francisco reports that property damages in he the Sonoma region are estimated at over 20 million dollars so far.

In 1983, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was deemed a onafide federal holiday. New Hampshire is the one state the does not honor the ay in the name of the assassinated civil rights leader. Eric Westervelt of New ampshire public radio reports that last night the Reverend Jesse Jackson isited New Hampshire and urged state officials to rethink the issue.

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