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of a bill to overhaul the nation's telecommunications law. The overwhelming votes in the House and Senate came after months of lobbying and after Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole gave up his opposition.

that their party's anti-regulatory position on environmental issues is going to cost them dearly in this year's elections. Major revisions in the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and other environmental protection laws have been a top legislative priority for the new Republican majority.

Robert talks with Ken Auletta, media writer with the New Yorker, Bob Lucky who is vice president of applied research for Bellcore and author of "Silicon Dreams", and Peter Huber, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "Orwell's Revenge." They project what changes we can expect to see in the next 15 years as a result of the Telecommunications Bill.

Illinois Governor Jim Edgar commuted the death sentence of Guinevere Garcia today. Garcia was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for the 1991 murder of her husband, who allegedly abused her. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that more than 90 percent of women on death row are not executed. The Governor said the fact the Garcia is a woman did not influence his decision.

France's President Jacques Chirac on a state visit to Washington addressed a joint session of Congress and got his loudest applause when he spoke of his decision just this week to cease his nation's nuclear testing. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, about how the budget impasse is affecting financial markets. Reischauer is now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

NPR'S Neal Conan reports that Iraq is still considered a military threat in the Middle East, five years after its defeat in the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. But the United States is the dominant force in the region as the protector of the rich Gulf states.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports that as the first southern African nation to go from white minority rule to black majority rule, Zimbabwe could be a model for South Africa in the areas of political and social reform. In the area of land reform, Zimbabwe's policy has been to placate the former rulers: the government has left most of the country's good land in the hands of the small white minority.

Commentator Ellen Ullman talks about the fear of becoming obsolete in the computer industry - an industry which changes at an incredibly rapid rate.

The Beatles made their last public performance 27 years ago today, on the roof of Apple studios.