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With Algeria in civil crisis and similar fundamentalist prisings brewing in Egypt, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, NPR's Sunni Khalid SOO-nee KAH-lid) examines U.S. policy and response to political Islamic ctivity.

Letters: We hear a few comments and letters from our listeners

A few resolutions we're sure to be hearing more about in '95.

A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

This is the first of four reports featured this half hour about what changes the country expects from the new Republican congress to be sworn in this week. In Boston, Anthony Brooks of member station WBUR examines the promises the new congress has made to reform welfare and what it may mean to people who now depend upon it.

During the mid-term elections there was a great outcry for less government in people's lives. NPR's John Burnett talks to small business owners in Texas, who hope the new Republican-majority Congress will mean less red tape.

NPR's Anne Garrels was in the Chechen capital of Grozny and reports on the scene there... burned out Russian tanks, a few Russian prisoners of war, and determined Chechen fighters.

Comedian AL FRANKEN, writer and actor on "Saturday Night Live." His characters have included the one-man mobile uplink unit, Pat Robertson, Paul Tsongas, and Stuart Smalley, host of "Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley." In 1992, FRANKEN published a book under Stuart's name; Stuart's new project is an upcoming movie called "Stuart Saves His Family.

SUSAN STAMBERG AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE END OF THE REPUBLICAN'S "FIRST ONE HUNDRED DAYS" AND THE OTHER TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Rock historian ED WARD

PATRICK MCGUIGAN, editorial page editor of the Daily Oklahoman

Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.