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NPR'S DAVD MOLPUS PROFILES THREE POWERFUL MOTHERS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS AND TALKS TO THEM ABOUT THEIR CAREERS AND VARIED DEFINITIONS OF SUCCESS.

Danny speaks with journalist Tad Szulc (pronounced: Shultz), who has followed Castro and the Cuban revolution since its inception in 1959. They talk about American efforts to undermine Castro, including the CIA's plots to assassinate the Cuban leader during the 1960's.

This week, the United States captured first place in the "Olympics of Bread Baking" Championships in Paris, France. Danny speaks to Tom McMahon, the Executive Director of the Bread Bakers Guild of America and a judge at the three-day event. Teams from eight countries participated in the event. McMahon says the American breads were so popular, the international judges took some home with them at the end of the competition.

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The Supreme Court is studying an attempt by two former Los Angeles police officers to avoid any further time behind bars for their part in the Rodney King beating. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the fight for the soul of the Republican party got underway in earnest today, as Pat Buchanan, riding the momentum of his New Hampshire victory, campaigned in South Carolina. Buchanan pushed economic nationalism hard and appealed to former Phil Gramm supporters, one of whom, Phyllis Schafely of Eagle Forum fame, joined his team today.

JOHN UPDIKE. America's preeminent writer has written forty-six books, including 17 novels. His latest work is a four-generation saga, a historical novel, "In the Beauty of the Lilies." (

National Political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, RONALD BROWNSTEIN. He has collaborated on a new book, Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival (Little, Brown and Company, written with Dan Balz, national editor of the Washington Post). In the book they look at how the Republicans captured Congress, so shortly after the defeat of George Bush in the presidential election, and how the Republican party has changed dramatically in the last ten years.

President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Dole addressed the National Governors' Association today. NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports both men praised the governors for coming up with a bipartisan compromise on Medicaid and welfare -- two of the biggest federal programs administered by the states and two of the biggest stumbling blocks in negotiations over a federal budget.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Bosnia on the peace process in Mostar and Sarajevo. In Mostar, the city once split between Croats and Muslims, the reunification of the central district has been marred by fist-fights between Croat and Muslim youths. In the Serb suburbs of Sarajevo the exodus of Bosnian Serbs continues. Leaders have ordered an evacuation from areas that are to be handed over to the Bosnian government.

Supreme Court today dealing with cable television programming. At issue is whether cable operators have the constitutional right to restrict so-called indecent programs.

O.J. Simpson called into a live talk show on C-N-N this afternoon to comment about the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. NPR's Rene Montaigne assesses Mr. Simpson's replies to a host of lingering questions about the murders since his aquittal earlier this year.