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NPR's Andy Bowers reports on today's election in Spain, hich is expected to produce a big win for Spain's conservatives, headed by Jose aria Azner's "Popular Party". Factoring into the election are allegations of orruption against the administration of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe onzalez.

COOKING CHICKEN: Essayist Diane Roberts relates some life lessons nd cooking tips from her mother.

Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen has a profile of a working poor family. Many political leaders now say curing poverty is beyond the ability of government; poor people simply have to go to work. But millions of the poor already work. One in six Americans is poor, or near poor, despite having one or more family members in the workforce. The proportion of workers earning poverty-level wages has grown by 50-percent in the past 13 years.

American React - NPR's John Nielsen rounds up reaction to the plane shootdowns from the Cuban-American community. Some Cuban-American leaders have been critical of the administration's response thus far.

Liane talks to Terry Pluto, author of "Falling From race: Can Pro Basketball Be Saved?" (Simon & Schuster). Pluto is sports olumnist for the Akron Beacon Journal about the future of professional asketball.

ebola virus, which infected a village in Zaire nine months ago and killed 300 people.

author of a new light-hearted book called >101 Ways to Get Your Adult Children To Move Out.

to the shooting down of two American civilian planes.

David Crump, Director of Field Studies at Orielton Field Center in Milfordhaven, Wales, about the impact on the environment of oil which spilled off the coast of Wales on February 15... 20-million gallons have leaked from the super tanker, Sea Empress, after it went aground in mid-February.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that public broadcasters testified before The House Telecommunications Subcommittee today, in response to a republican proposal intended to move public radio and television off federal supports by the year 2000. The broadcasters objected to the 1-billion-dollar cap on a proposed trust fund contained in the legislation and complained that other provisions would bring too much commercial pressure to bear on public broadcasting. But disagreement surfaced among the panelists over whether the proposal would shift too much power from local independent stations to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

aims in blocking the extension of the U.N. presence in Haiti. The U.N. Security Council finally agreed late yesterday to cut the size and duration of the mission.

DANIEL SCHORR DISCUSSES U-S REACTION TO THE SHOOTING DOWN OF TWO CIVILIAN PLANES OFF CUBA WITH CONGRESSWOMAN ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (ILL-lee-ah-nuh ross-LAY-tin-en), OF SOUTH FLORIDA, AND WAYNE SMITH, A LATIN AMERICAN SPECIALIST AT THE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY IN WASHINGTON.