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NPR's Elaine Korry reports that California has relaxed regulations which would have required that two percent of the vehicles sold in California by 1998 emit zero emissions. For all practical purposes this would have meant putting electric cars on the market. Carmakers have been fighting this mandate ever since it was passed.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb about the current ituation in Bosnia. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke ontinues his travels trying to bring the warring factions together. This orning, he acknowledged that a wide rift remains.

NPR'S PETER OVERBY REPORTS ON THE NEW SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTED IN THE NEWT GINGRICH ETHICS CASE

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the day's negotiations on Capitol Hill over reopening the federal government. The White House today responded to an offer presented by Republicans last night..with its own counter offer. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers nationwide have been furloughed since Monday.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 6:30 This week's challenger is Cheryl Dean from Proctor, Vermont. Her public radio tation is WRVT in Rutland, Ver

PEANUT BUTTER: ANOTHER HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY...OF THE FIRST PATENT APPLIED FOR ON A PRODUCT 85 PERCENT OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS STOCK IN THEIR CUPBOARDS...PEANUT BUTTER! SCOTT SPEAKS WITH DUFF STOLTZ OF THE ADVENTIST HERITAGE MISSION MUSEUM OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. 2:59.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered one week ago, and NPR's Andy Bowers pieces together a chronology of how the assassination took place. He reports from Jerusalem.

NPR's Nina Teicholz (TY-sholtz) reports on the recent arrests f Argentine army officers in connection with last year's bombing of a Jewish ultural center. The bombing resulted in the deaths of 86 people.

Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume (kwah-EE-see em-FOO-may) as been named to head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored eople, the nation's oldest, largest and most troubled civil rights rganization.

WITH THE HELP OF INTERPRETER JEAN LINDQUIST, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MAGGIE LEE SAYRE ABOUT HER BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS TITLED "DEAF MAGGIE LEE SAYRE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF A RIVER LIFE," A BOOK IN WHICH SHE CHRONICLED LIFE ON A RIVER HOUSEBOAT ALONG THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE RIVERS OVER A 30-YEAR SPAN. THEY ARE JOINED BY THE BOOK'S EDITOR TOM RANKIN. (THE BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI PRESS - 1-800-737