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Weekend Edition's Senior News Analyst Dan Schorr speaks with Frank Gaffney, director for the Center for Security Policy, and Spurgeon Keeney, President of the Arms Control Association, about today's nuclear threat.

Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport talks about the low scoring in the National Basketball Association.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Detroit on the close race for resident of the nation's largest labor union, the Teamsters. Incumbent Ron arey has claimed victory in a hard fought battle against James P. Hoffa, the on of infamous Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa has yet to concede the lection and is challenging more than 40-thousand ballots that will be counted his coming week.

about what to expect from President Clinton's news conference today, his second since winning reelection. He is likely to announce replacements for departing secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Housing & Urban Development and for his economic team. The President also may indicate whether Janet Reno will stay on as Attorney General.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the United Nations Security Council today broke a deadlock and selected Kofi Annan (KO-fee ah-NAHN) of Ghana to be the next U-N secretary general. Annan will succeed Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was blocked from a second term by the United States. For the past several days France had objected to Annan, but Paris joined the rest of the Security Council today in backing the Ghanaian, who currently is head of UN peacekeeping operations.

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- Federal investigators don't know the exact cause of the TWA crash, but they say they know enough to call for changes in the way airlines operate their large aircraft and in the way those jetliners are built. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that big changes are instore for the airline industry if the recommendations are implemented.

recent appointees, and how these new cabinet members and advisors may help him achieve his goals.

Rbert talks to Barton Gellman, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post , about the decline in popularity of Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In the six months since Netanyahu took office, there have been events that led to questions about Netanyahu's effectiveness...such as the violent response to the Israeli government's opening of a tourist tunnel and the inability of the government to negotiate a plan for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. At home and abroad, confidence in Netanyahu's effectiveness as a leader has waned.

Human rights groups are urging American Christmas shoppers not to buy toys manufactured in China. The so-called "toycott" has been attempted before, but was not very successful. This year, the effort faces two more obstacles: the Clinton administration's delinking of the issues of trade and human rights... and the large number of Chinese-made goods available. NPR's Paul Miller has a report.