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This first day of May is Labor day for most of the world. From Paris, David Culhane reports that while people are celebrating today with demonstrations, parades and speechs...they are anxious about the future. Unemployment is high, job insecurity is rising and the government is planning to cut social security and other welfare benefits.

Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on the importance of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's visit to the United States...

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports..Majority Leader Bob Dole acknowleges that he trails President Clinton by a wide margin among female voters. But Dole says the gender gap is merely a perception problem and his plan to address it is to emphasize his legislative record.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that since April 27th, the Olympic Torch has been making its way across the country and is scheduled to arrive in Atlanta for the start of the Games in July. By the time the torch completes its journey, it will have traveled more than fifteen thousand miles through forty-two states, and be carried by more than ten thousand people. Wherever it passes, small town or big city, the Torch seems to capture the spirit of the Olympics for those who watch and those who participate.

Commentator GERALD EARLY comments on "The Future of the Race."

Robert remarks on some "non-news" from Eastern Europe which is becoming less and less Eastern. In Poland, a new anti-smoking law took effect last month.

Congressional budget committees took up the Republicans' new proposal for the fiscal year 1997 budget today. The plan, intended to lead to a balanced federal budget in six years, includes a smaller tax cut and fewer cuts in domestic spending than previous proposals. Congressional Democrats criticized the budget plan, but President Clinton called it "movement in the right direction". NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Diedre Berger reports from Hamburg, Germany, on the trial in which an American is accused of distributing neo-nazi propaganda...an illegal act in Germany. Gary Lauck of Lincoln, Nebraska, was arrested in Denmark last year and extradicted to Germany for the trial.

Noah and Robert read letters send in from listeners. Listeners can send letters to LETTERS-ATC: 635 Massachussetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Or by E-mail to ATC@NPR.org.

President Clinton has been testifying on videotape before the Whitewater jury in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is a defense witness, called by his former real estate business partners James and Susan McDougal. The McDougals and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker face fraud charges in connection with federally-backed loans. The president has not been charged. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on Mr Clinton's testimony.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN gives her summer reading round-up (part one): "Neanderthal," by John Darton (Random House); "Firestorm," by Nevada Barr (Putnam); "The World at Night," by Alan Furst (Random House); "Ruined By Reading," by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Beacon).Movie critic JOHN POWERS reviews the new action thriller "The Rock," starring Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage. In the film, Cage and Connery team up to retake Alcatraz from a crazed general.

Susan speaks with medical economist Brad Kirkman-Liff about how medicare compares with other world programs.