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will hear arguments in three cases involving federal sentencing guidelines. In today's case the issue is whether two Los Angeles police officers convicted in the Rodney King beating case were given enough jail time under federal rules.

A federal judge has thrown out a suit against GOPAC, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's former political action committee. The judge has rejected Federal Election Commission arguments that the group assisted federal candidates, when it was registered only to help state and local candidates. The FEC had hoped for court help in getting the names of GOPAC's donors, how much they contributed and how the money was used. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the efforts of anti-drug activist Herman Wrice to help small towns in the United States fight crack cocaine abuse through grassroots organizing and regularly confronting suspected drug dealers. Civil libertarians are concerned that this approach is tantamount to vigilanteism. If these people are known drug dealers, they argue, they should be arrested, not harrassed.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the results of the New Hampshire Primary seem to indicate that Lamar Alexander may be the strongest mainstream Republican candidate.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that Pat Buchanan's first place finish in New Hampsire raises some intersting questions for the Republican Party. Republicans, who have built their economic policies around free markets and free trade, have seen a decidedly non-free trade candidate take the first primary of the 1996 elections.

STAMBERG/ RON: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALKS ABOUT THIS WEEK'S TRADE THAT TOOK THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S GREATEST PLAYER, WAYNE GRETZKY, FROM THE LOS ANGELES KINGS TO THE ST. LOUIS BLUES.

Danny speaks with NPR's Nancy Cohen, who was on board one of the Cuban-American ships in a flotilla that headed out to Cuba today to participate in a ceremony honoring the four civilian pilots who were killed last Saturday when Cuban MIGs shot them out of the sky. The flotilla was unable to reach its destination -- the spot where the planes were downed -- because of poor weather.

at George Washington University Hospital. Frank says eating breakfast is highly over-rated.

to institute changes in the state's welfare system while not draining more money from the state's coffers to achieve that. One plan involves going to the private sector for help in getting some welfare recipients out of the dependency cycle.

Phillips in New Hampshire about the implications of yesterday's primary, and what it means for the rest of the race to the Republican convention in San Diego.

Linda talks with W.D. Wetherall about his novel, "The Wisest Man in America." It tells the story of a New Hampshire farmer named Ferris who has the unusual ability to predict the winner of the state primary, and who has come to be regarded as a political sage.

in the New Hampshire primary yesterday. In a record voter turnout Buchanan received 27 percent of the vote, compared to 26 percent for Senator Bob Dole.