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About a half-million elderly immigrants receive assistance under the Supplemental Security Income program. It's an income assistance program that also entitles them to Food Stamps and Medicaid, which pays for nursing home care for thousands. Laws passed by Congress in the last term would make immigrants ineligible for the assistance. NPR's Vicky Que looks at the possible impact of the changes on a Vietnamese couple in Philadelphia, who are too old to work and have no family in the U.S. to help them. (An adopted son is in trouble with the law.) It's not clear that either local and state public service agencies or private organizations can or will step in.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the political pendulum has swung back to a period where states' rights are highly valued, with the latest round of innovation coming from Maryland, New York, Virginia and Hawaii.

is underway and independent producers are favoring comedies as their offerings for this year.

Lanny Davis, White House Special Counsel, talks to Linda about today's document release. They also discuss the White House strategy for addressing the number of questions regarding fund-raising practices, and the blurring of lines between White House business and DNC business.

about the latest opposition protests calling for the ouster of President Milosevic. The parliament of the new Yugoslavia was due to meet today, but the session was suspended amid growing signs of unease by the authorities.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin's prospects for the New Year. Bowers says that with Yeltsin's heart bypass surgery behind him, the Russian leader appears to be entering 1997 in a relatively strong political position. But he does have to contend with some enormous economic problems.

and important science story of the year...the announcement that scientists had found possible evidence of ancient life on Mars.

Roving correspondent Bob Garfield had to go to Nashville, Tennessee last year to deliver a speech. While he was there, he decided he'd like to write a hit country song. After enlisting the aid of almost everyone in the region, he ended up with a song...and a better understanding of the machinery behind the country-music industry.

about the year ahead for Hong Kong, which will revert to Chinese control in mid-1997. Hong Kong currently is a British 'crown colony.'

Noah talks about the closure of independent radio station B92 in Belgrade today. The government claims that the station was shut down because its was operating illegally...but Radio B92 was one of only two media outlets, along with a student-run station, broadcasting information regarding the ongoing protests against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The station has now taken its message to the Internet.

Commentator MILO MILES reviews two new reissues of singer Tracy Nelson: The Best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth and Mother Earth Presents Tracy nelson Country (both on Reprise Archives Label."Poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY. He died Sunday at the age of 73, from complications of lung disease. DICKEY was the author of the novel "Deliverance" and the screenplay for the movie of the same name. He said he wrote novels to pay the bills, but his first love was poetry. He wrote more than 20 collections of poetry. (REBROADCAST from 9/30/93)Rock historian ED WARD remembers veteran bluesman Z.Z. Hill. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . . a novelist whose first love was poetry, and a presidential candidate who offered tough solutions for the nation's economy. Interviews from the archives with poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY and former senator and presidential candidate PAUL TSONGAS. . . Both of them died earlier this week. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

A year after it was elected, the Palestinian Legislative Council is running into obstacles, both internal and external. Laurie Neff reports.