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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr reflects on the dismissal of ouse historian Christina Jeffrey by Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Many legal immigrants to the United States are rushing to get their U.S. citizenship these days. Julia McEvoy reports from Chicago that immigrants there have become concerned about their status since the passage of Proposition 187 in California and because of ongoing threats by Republicans that some benefits should be waived for legal immigrants.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on the future of Medicare, he health insurance system that caters specifically to elderly and disabled mericans. With the Republican promise to balance the budget on the 1995 ongressional docket, some advocates for seniors are beginning to wonder when nd if cuts will be directed at Medicare funds.

Danny speaks with New Jersey state senator Joseph Bubba about a bill he's introduced which would fine politicians in that state for lying in campaign ads.

NPR's Brook Gladstone reports on the latest events in the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Russian troops appear to be poised to occupy the capitol city of Grozny.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that free oil shipments to North Korea are beginning in exchange for the government's abandonment of nuclear weapons. Republicans say that the deal isn't tough enough on the North Koreans.

Daniel talks with Jim Wallis, author of the "Soul of Politics". Wallis says both Republicans and Democrats are entrenched in old ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to the topic of welfare reform. Wallis says that both the left and the right have some good ideas when it comes to solving welfare woes, but he says real reform will only occur when both the public and private sector begins to take collective responsibility for the country's problems.

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both civil rights leaders but they had very different approaches in their efforts to gain equality for blacks in a white dominated society. Daniel talks with Orlando Bagwell, producer of the documentary "Malcolm X, Make It Plain", about the relationship between the two leaders and how it evolved over time.