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Jacki speaks with Professor Dirk Vandewalle of Dartmouth College..and Algerian artist TAhar Bouqeterie about the recent violence in Algeria. More than 30-thousand people have been killed in that conflict.

FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LAST NIGHT'S RULING BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT STAYED THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST CLARENCE LACKEY IS SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH BAR WHICH, THIS WEEK, FILED A FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON HIS BEHALF.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

Jacki talks to Bernard McMahon about the relationship between the CIA and the Congressional committees created to oversee the spy agency. McMahon, who as worked for both the CIA and the Congress, says that in terms of budget and management, the CIA does not mind Congress looking over its shoulder, but when it comes to operations, relations can be tense.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers about today's presidential elections in France. Conservative Paris mayor Jacques Chirac defeated socialist candidate Lionel Jospin by a clear margin in this second round of French balloting.

EARTH DAY BEGAN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES 25 YEARS AGO, AND PHILIP DAVIS TAKES A LOOK AT THE STATE OF CURRENT STUDENT ENVIRONMENTALISM.

When Primary Election season comes around, locations designated or the regional events often cause competition among states. From member tations W-U-W-M in Milwaukee, Andrea Rowe (ROH) reports that smaller states may xperience growing pains since so many of the larger states plan to hold their rimaries at the same time.

Joyce Russell of member station W-O-I reports on programs that are trying to save the institution of the family farm by linking retiring farmers with young people who want to farm. Some programs find creative financing for the purcahse of small farms, others help new farmers find mentors in experienced farmers who don't want a full-time farm anymore but want to keep in contact with their land.

WE HEAR REFECTIONS OF SOLDIERS WHO LIBERATED PRISONERS FROM THE BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP...AND WE ALSO HEAR SELECTIONS FROM EDWARD R. MURROW'S RADIO BROADCAST THE DAY OF LIBERATION OF BUCHENWALD, 50 YEARS AGO TODAY.

FROM PARIS, WHERE THE FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS TO BE HELD SUNDAY, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LIKE AMERICANS, THE FRENCH PICK THEIR LEADERS BASED ON WHAT THEY LEARN ABOUT THEM IN NEWSPAPERS AND ON TELEVISION. BUT WHAT THE FRENCH SEE IN THE MEDIA IS NOT AT ALL LIKE WHAT WE SEE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS.