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Commentator Elissa Ely is very pregnant, and living in terror of labor...thanks to all the words of wisdom she's gotten from women who've gone through the experience.

The BBC's Julian Isherwood reports from Denmark that six members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang have gone to trial, charged with the murder of a member of a rival gang. The killing is part of a feud between motorcycle gangs that has been plaguing all of Scandinavia for the last two years.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that some customers of Avis say the company wouldn't rent them cars because they're black. A class action suit was filed against a North Carolina franchise of Avis for racial discrimination. Some former employees have also joined the suit.

Robert talks to Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, about possible political ends to the crisis in Zaire. Vansina says that the difficult problem to resolve is how to return Hutu refugees to a Rwanda ruled by Tutsis...who may very well exact some kind of retribution agains the returning refugees.

between the big-3 carmakers to accelerate research into "smart" airbags. The new systems, tentatively planned to be installed starting in 1999, would use sensors to tell the airbag how fast and with how much force to deploy. Public hearings on airbag safety will be held today in Washington.

Roving correspondent Bob Garfield puzzles over a newspaper advertisement for a Leica 35mm camera said to be one of a limited stock of "Anton Bruckner Centennial" models. There is, in fact, just one .. and the connection to the composer is non-existent.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN considers "The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right" by Sherrie Fein and Sherrie Schneider (Warner Books). INT. 2: Irish Writer WILLIAM TREVOR, whom The New Yorker called "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language." Besides his eight volumes of short stories, he has written eleven novels, several plays for stage and for radio and television, and stories for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other magazines. In 1994 his memoir, "Excursions in the Real World" was published by Knopf. He writes about his family and childhood in Ireland. His latest book is "After Rain" published by Viking. It is a collection of short stories many which appeared in the magazine The New Yorker. He also has two previous books being released on paperback "Elizabeth Alone," and "The Love Department." (REBROADCAST from 2/14/95)REV. 2: Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews the new film "Set it Off" directed by F. Gary Gray, who directed "Friday."

to China this week. Over the last two years, the Clinton administration has placed less emphasis on human rights, in an effort to improve relations. Among other topics important to the U.S. are: trade, arms proliferation, the future of Taiwan, and the change in Hong Kong.

He developed a new line of stories for Batman aimed at helping children in war-torn countries learn the dangers of landmines that are used so indiscriminately around the globe.

will react to the new Bosnian mandate.

NPR's Mandalit DelBarco talks to high school students and admissions officials at the University of California system, which has dumped its affirmative action program, or at least the parts of it that gave special status to applicants based on race, ethnicity or gender.

Robert talks with former Central Intelligence Agency director Robert Gates, about the recent arrest of CIA agent Harold Nicholson, on charges of counter-espionage for Russia. Gates says there were significant reforms at the CIA after Aldrich Ames was caught spying for the Soviet Union, making it faster and easier to catch spies. Gates was director of the CIA from November 1991 to January 1993.