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Robert talks live with NPR's Ted Clark about the US decision not to punish China for selling equipment to Pakistan that could be used to make nuclear bombs. The US had threatened to impose sanctions that would affect 10 billion dollars in US projects in China. But China agreed to make a public committment not to sell such technology in the future.

Robert talks with Newsweek Washington correspondent Michael Isikoff about today's report that Bruce Lindsey, a close advisor to President Clinton, has been named as a co-conspirator in the current Whitewater trial. Although Lindsey is not being indicted, this latest news is more trouble for the White House.

about their series on slavery in Sudan which ran earlier this week in the Baltimore Sun. The two of them traveled to the southern part of Sudan to investigate whether slavery actually exists there. To prove that it does,they bought two African boys from an Arab slave trader and then freed them. Sudan's fundamentalist Islamic government denies that slavery is practiced there.

A House committee opened hearings today into the White House's improperly obtaining FBI background files on top Republicans. While the committee looks into the matter, the White House has appointed Charles Easley, a career civil servant originally appointed during the Reagan administration, to be the new head of security. He'll run the office which obtained the files. NPR's Peter Kenyon has more on the story.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the House of Representatives today passed a bill that would impose sanctions against foreign individuals or companies investing in Iran or Libya's oil industries. The legislation is similar to the Helms-Burton Law, which punishes certain foreign firms doing business in Cuba. As with Helms-Burton, the Iran-Libya bill is raising the ire of America's trading partners, who say it violates international rules of free trade.

Daniel talks with Andy Griffith about his latest endeavor in show business...a gospel album. Griffith says it has always been his dream to be a singer and he was actually a music major in college. Although he is close to 70 years old, he claims his voice has gotten better with age. Griffith's new cd is called I Love to Tell The Story. (SPARROW RECORDS)

companies, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX are to merge, creating the second largest phone company in the nation. The two now provide local phone service to much of the Northeast United States.

2: The grandaughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, NOA BEN ARTZI-PELOSSOF. During the his funeral NOA gave a moving tribute to the grandfather she knew as opposed to the political leader the world knew. She's written a new memoir, "In the Name of Sorrow and Hope," (Knopf).

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Last Orders" (Knopf) the new novel by Graham Swift.

to pass today the budget that was agreed upon last night. The Congressional leadership is claiming victory in the compromise legislation, but the spending package falls far short of the reforms Republicans had originally hoped for. Peter Kenyon reports.

Jacki speaks with reporter Denise Hamilton of Wired Magazine about the problem of computer software copyright infringement in the United States. This week, the US announced that it would impose trade sanctions on China because illegal reproductions of computer software are being sold there for a fraction of the price of authentic software. Hamilton says that the problem is serious WITHIN our borders as software bootleggers are becoming ever-more sophisticated.

The Kitchen Sisters Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva report on a visit by former Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio to the Sicilian village of his ancestors. Despite nearly a year's worth of preparation by the townspeople of Isola della Femine (EE-sole-uh della FEM-ee-nuh) the visit did NOT go off as planned.