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critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews "A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman," which airs Wednesday on NBC.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON THREE BILLS PASSED THIS WEEK IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE INTENDED TO REFORM THE NATION'S CIVIL LAW SYSTEM.

BEVERLY AND DERECK JOUBERT (pronounce "Jo-Bear"), wildlife documentary producers. This husband and wife team lives in northern Botswana, seven hours from the nearest village. Working and living out of a four-wheel drive vehicle, they have captured the family relationships of the last free-roaming elephants left in Africa. Their wildlife film, "Reflections on Elephants," contains ground-breaking footage of lions attacking an elephant calf. Previously, such attacks were thought to be only mythical. (REBROADCAST FROM 2/2/94) The JOUBERTS have just won a Peabody award for the film.

NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR ASSESSES THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE 104TH CONGRESS.

STAMBERG/CUOMO: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG "CHASTIZES" MARIO CUOMO, WHO IS NOW OUR COMPETITION! THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK THAT HE WILL HOST HIS OWN TALK RADIO SHOW, WHICH WILL AIR SATURDAY MORNINGS.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.

2: Ethnobotanist MARK PLOTKIN. He wrote a book about what he learned about botany and medicine from the Medicine Men of the tropical rain forests. His book is Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest (Viking). The book was issued in paper back 8/94 by Penguin Books.(Aired 9

WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH SUSAN EISENHOWER, GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE LATE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER AND FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTER FOR POST SOVIET STUDIES, AND ROALD SAGDEEV (row-ALD zag-DAY-ev), DIRECTOR EMERITUS OF THE SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN MOSCOW, ABOUT THE CHANGES IN RUSSIA SINCE THEIR WEDDING, FIVE YEARS AGO.

NPR'S PETER KENYON REPORTS ON LAST NIGHT'S UNPRECEDENTED NATIONALLY BROADCAST ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH.

Jacki talks to Bernard McMahon about the relationship between the CIA and the Congressional committees created to oversee the spy agency. McMahon, who as worked for both the CIA and the Congress, says that in terms of budget and management, the CIA does not mind Congress looking over its shoulder, but when it comes to operations, relations can be tense.

At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. bagan closing any of its overseas military bases. Annie Allsebrook reports from England on ne community's experience with the "downsizing" of the American presence verseas.

2: Screenwriter and novelist RICHARD PRICE. His books include The Wanderers, Bloodbrothers, and Clockers, which was a National Book Critic Circle Award nominee. He was also nominated for an Academy Award in 1986 for his screenplay of "The Color of Money." His other screenplays are "Sea of Love," "Night and the City" and "Mad Dog and Glory." His newest credit is "Kiss of Death," which stars David Caruso, Samuel Jackson and Nicholas Cage.