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SANDY TOLAN REPORTS ON REACTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST TO THE REINTRODUCTION OF WOLVES TO THE REGION'S WILDERNESS. TO RESIDENTS, IT'S HARDLY AS SIMPLE AS RANCHERS-VERSUS-ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's on-air player is Tom Hall from akland, California. His public radio station is KQED out of San Francisco)

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on beads and the way humans have doted, decorated, collected, traded, interpreted, identified, sold and bought with beads through the ages. It's said that beads are the second-oldest form of commerce known to mankind.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

WE ASKED NPR'S DEIDRE BERGER IN FRANKFURT TO TEST OUT SOME RECIPES FROM GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL'S JUST PUBLISHED COOKBOOK, WHICH HE CO-AUTHORED WITH HIS WIFE. HER FINDING: KOHL-ESTEROL!

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tour in support of Republican Congressmen. Despite low public approval numbers, Gingrich has drawn large crowds both supporters and protesters. And his appearances have helped raise lots of campaign money for Republican incumbents.

A U.S. SOLDIER ASKED NPR TO DELIVER A TAPE DETAILING HIS ACTIVITIES IN BOSNIA TO HIS FAMILY STATIONED IN GERMANY---AND SAID WE COULD AIR SOME OF HIS THOUGHTS. SO WE DID.

President Clinton was in Atlanta today, to commemorate the birthday of Martine Luther King, Junior. We hear remarks the President made at The Reverend Doctor King's former pulpit at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. (1:30) 11. LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL - On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Kirk Franklin and the Family.

NPR'S Neal Conan reports that Iraq is still considered a military threat in the Middle East, five years after its defeat in the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. But the United States is the dominant force in the region as the protector of the rich Gulf states.

The BBC's Richard Carruthers reports on yesterday's meeting between roatian president Franjo Tudjman and President Clinton. The two leaders agreed o use American arbitration to settle disputes between the Muslim and Croat ommunities in the tense city of Mostar.