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Liane Hansen speaks with zoologist Desmond Morris about his ew 6-part mini-series, "The Human Animal: A Personal View of the Human pecies." The series is currently being aired Sunday nights on cable TV's "The earning Channel" throughout the month of January. A companion book also has een written to accompany the series. (Crown Publishers, Inc.) In both, Morris elves into the biology and evolution of human behavior.

Danny visits the Library of Congress where the actual written copy of Lincoln's Gettyburg Address is on display. It's the first time in 22 years the actual address has been shown at the Library of Congress.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including President Bill Clinton on the California floods, flood victim eborah Johnson, National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, and President ill Clinton on what it's like to be President.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Christensen, Washington orrespondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, about Newt Gingrich's igh-profile rise to the position of Speaker of the House. They also discuss the n-going controversy between the National Park Service and the family of Dr. artin Luther King over who will control a visitor's center which is being built cross the street from Atlanta's King Center For Social Change. (Today would ave been the 66th birthday of Dr. King.)

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.