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Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the latest Barbra Streisand movie, "The Mirror Has Two Faces." He says that Streisand is sticking with a role she's played in several movies, that of ugly-duckling-turns-to-swan, and to be honest, it's getting a little tiresome.

After elections in which the number of police on the streets and leadership in the drug war were debated, Congress and the president have the same issues to confront in 1997. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says other crime issues likely to occupy Washington next year are computer crime, militia movements, and the cost of the growing prison population.

Robert talks with Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin who specializes in Central Africa, about the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Central Africa. Vansina discusses the potential for a full-blown war in the area which includes parts of Zaire, Rwanda and Burundi.

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to Republican and Democratic consultants for an national overview of House races. In recent weeks, Republicans in a number of close races seem to have pulled ahead, and some political observers say the anti-incumbent sentiment that marked the 1992 election seems much-diminished this year.

about the ethnic and tribal conflicts that have rocked central Africa in recent years.

Reporter Karen Coleman reports on possible fuel shortages n Sarajevo this winter. The country owes millions of dollars to Russia for gas

more efficient lights and motors is becoming a big business in the corporate world. He visits a glass factory in North Carolina that's cut more than a million dollars from its annual budget...while improving productivity.

to reduce the number of American bases on Okinawa -- a move aimed at easing anti-U.S. sentiment on the island after the rape earlier this year of a local woman by three American military personnel...

Actress GENA ROWLANDS (jen-ah...roe-lenz). She won acclaim for her performance in "A Woman Under the Influence" and "Gloria." ROWLANDS collaborated with her late husband, actor/screenwriter/and director, John Cassavetes for thirty years. ROWLANDS is starring in the new film "Unhook the Stars"(Miramax Films) in which she plays Mildred, a middle-aged woman who finds herself at a crucial turning point in her life. The film was written and directed by ROWLAND'S son, Nick Cassavetes. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Liane Hansen speaks with composer Stephen Scott. For wo decades he's been eliciting very UN-pianolike sounds from concert grands ith the help of his Bowed Piano Ensemble. 10 players huddle around the nstrument, creating surprisingly soothing music with nylon filaments, picks, nd rosinated sticks. His new CD is titled "Vikings of the Sunrise - Fantasy on he Polynesian Star Path Navigators" (New Albion NA084CD).

- In the Hague, the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced a low-ranking soldier to 10 years in jail for his role in the massacre of 1,200 people and finished the trial of another defendent. Gillian Sharpe reports the second trial is far more complex, with questions of guilt and innocence clouded by emotional testimony and circumstantial evidence.

Daniel talks with Craig and Pat Enenbach (EHN-in-bahk), founders of the Omaha (Nebraska) Handicap Parking Patrol. The Enenbach's, along with about 45 volunteers, issue citations at cars parked illegally in spots reserved for the disabled. They have been empowered to do so by the Omaha police department. Twelve groups nationwide perform a similar function.