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Robert Siegel gets reactions from the states about Clinton's welfare proposals. He speaks with William Grinker, former head of New York City's social services, and Penelope Clarke, director of Sacramento county department of human resources.

on secretaries who have abusive bosses and what they can do to defend themselves.

with some thoughts about songs worth knowing.

SCOTT TALKS WITH AMATEUR GENEOLOGIST PATRICK GARIEPY WHO IS COMPILING A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTRY OF ALL THOSE WHO DIED DURING THE WORLD WAR ONE BATTLE OF GALIPOLI.

N-P-R'S Julie Burstein visits the Just Born candy factory in ethlehem, Pennsylvania where traditional marshmallow birds and bunnies have een made for more than 40 years.

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports on today's presidential election in Uganda, the first fair election there in over thirty years. President Yoweri Museveni (yo-WHERE-ee moo-SEH-vuh-nee) is expected to win easily--while he has permitted candidates to challenge him, he has forbidden political parties from participating. Museveni--who has ruled Uganda since seizing power ten years ago--says his "no-party" system is a good democratic model for Africa, because it prevents ethnic and religious strife. The president's opponents say it's a thinly-veiled way to keep himself in power.

NPR's Linda Gradstein looks at historical and religious strains in Hebron, and how those complicate Isreal's partial pullout the city. Muslims and Jews alike view it as the birthplace of their respective faiths, and neither side wants to withdraw an inch.

The Subway Vigilante was back in court today, eleven years after he made headlines for gunning down 4 black teens on a New York subway. Bernhardt Goetz (Gets) was in court for a pretrial hearing for 50-million dollar civil suit filed by one of who was shot. Robert Siegel speaks with National Law Journal reporter Andy Blum about why this case continues more than a decade later.

movie critic for Newsday, about this year's Cannes film festival.

Marius Benson reports that Deputy President F.W. De Klerk and his National Party announced today that they will pull out of South Africa's government of national unity at the end of June. The move comes the day after parliament ratified the first post-apartheid constitution. After the next election in 1999, the constitution says the government will be based on majority rule, and De Klerk said the National Party wants to get an early start on establishing itself as a credible alternative to Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. [This week's winner is Charles Bryan, a retired ir Force pilot and former math and computer science teacher from Boise, Idaho. is public radio stations are KBSX and KBSU.]