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against managed care. Lawmakers have proposed two new bills to restrict cost-cutting measures by HMOs.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that 39 immigrant detainees have been released from a prison in York, Pennsylvania. They are the last detainees held in York after they were arrested following the grounding of the Golden Venture, an ship that ran aground off the New York coast in 1993. Federal authorities arrested the immigrants ,who said they were fleeing China's oppressive policies, as part of an effort to crack down on illegal immigration. The townspeople of York took up the cause of the detainees, and helped secure their release.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse examines a new novel by Toronto poet Anne Michaels. Fugitive Pieces is a fictional memoir of a poet who survived the Holocaust. It's an impressionistic look at language and pleasure which Cheuse says could become a new classic. (STATIONS: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels is published by Knopf.)

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the most widely used school-based drug education program in the nation, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, known as DARE. DARE is a "just say no" curriculum taught in middle schools by police officers. Critics of the program say the DARE approach is too limited to be effective, especially with children who are likely to use drugs. Research released Monday by the US Department of Education confirms the program does not change kids' attitudes and behavior in the long term. But DARE is popular with schools and with Clinton's top drug advisors, who say it should continue to receive federal suppport.

this week, to ask the U.S. to include his country in NAFTA. President Clinton supports the idea, but many Democrats would rather not expand the free trade agreement.

that the level of the Red River has dropped slightly. While sandbagging and dike patrols continue, residents are hopeful that the worst has passed and clean-up can soon begin.

to reform campaign contribution laws, some corporations are looking for a way to curb political donations themselves. Most corporations don't believe Congress will pass any reform this year. There is currently no limit to how much soft money a company can contribute, only what a politician dares ask for.

who has come up with the idea of a C.D. of soothing sounds to quiet screaming babies. The C.D. is called " >For Crying out loud: Unlikely sounds to calm your baby".

about baseball's dilemma about where in this country Japanese superstar Hideki Irabu should play.

Richard Downes reports from South AFrica where President Mandela says there has been encouraging signs of progress for the ending of the Zairean conflict.