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and whether they actually contribute to the learning environment.

Members of Congress came back to Washington this week after a three week hiatus. And Commentator Mickey Edwards wants know if the republican members will continue the fight for the GOP agenda. It was only two months ago that budget battles raged between the Congress and the White House. Mickey Edwards wonders if Republicans on the Hill will get back on track with their agenda: the balanced budget and taxes. He wonders what they will get accomplished in the next few months, especially now that the GOP Presdiential candidates have taken the spotlight and shifted focus of the Republican agenda.

Liane Hansen speaks with singer Jerry Butler. He hosts the Rhythm nd Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards in Los Angeles, which will be held this hursday. The foundation honors rhythm and blues artists, many of whom have allen on hard times.

electricity in space by tethering a satellite on the end of a 13-mile wire.

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Robert talks with Ze'ev Schiff, military correspondent for the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, about the secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO negotiators over the creation of an unarmed Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as the culmination of their current peace process. Schiff says the two sides already have drafted ideas for such a state.

Commentator GERALD EARLY reflects on his wife''s work with the Junior League of St. Louis. She is the first African-American woman to be elected president of that city''s chapter. REV. 2: Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording of live performances from the 1959 Salzburg Festival, including the late Erica Morini playing Mozart''s Violin concerto No. 5, conducted by George Szell with the French National Radio and Television Orchestra. (on

charges against House Speaker Newt Gingrich's controversial GOPAC organization.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Cuba and Fidel Castro have long influenced U.S. foreign and domestic policy.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that a Canadian judge has been named to replace Richard Goldstone as the prosecutor of the International War Crime Tribunal investigating atrocities in Rwanda and the Balkans. Goldstone will work with Judge Louise Arbour for an interim period before she assumes her full responsibilities with the tribunal.

New York Times reporter Bill Carter's bestseller The Late Shift which told of the backstage battle between David Letterman and Jay Leno to occupy Johnny Carson's seat on the Tonight show, is now a movie that will debut tomorrow on HBO. A review from Ken Tucker.