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After elections in which the number of police on the streets and leadership in the drug war were debated, Congress and the president have the same issues to confront in 1997. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says other crime issues likely to occupy Washington next year are computer crime, militia movements, and the cost of the growing prison population.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on what appears to be a split vote on six Congressional House seats up for grabs this election. The state was seen as a bellwether for the conservative shift in 1994, when six seats flipped from Democratic to Republican. The margin was narrow in 1994, however, and this year's readjustment may indicate that 1994 wasn't such a strong rightward swing.

NPR's David Molpus reports that the South, like the rest of the nation, produced mixed messages as far as electoral results are concerned. Democrats picked off a couple of Republican freshman in the House, but Republicans did better in open seats...and the GOP also picked up 2 Senate seats in Arkansas and Alabama. Meanwhile, black candidates who used to represent majority-minority districts did better than expected--despite redistricting, all five won relection, including Cynthia McKinney of Georgia.

to reduce the number of American bases on Okinawa -- a move aimed at easing anti-U.S. sentiment on the island after the rape earlier this year of a local woman by three American military personnel...

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that it is not easy for people to immigrate legally to the United States, as the case of two sisters from the Philippines shows. More than a half million Filipinos are waiting to join relatives in the States, but that wait can take decades.

. Today, the Ford Motor Company will produce its two-hundred-and 50-millionth vehicle, AND this year marks the one hundredth birthday of automobile production in the U.S. We'll hear from Ralph NAder, New York City's traffic commissioner, a car loving poet, and from Tom and Ray, the hosts of Car Talk.

Liane Hansen talks with singer/songwriter/playwright/actor scar Brown, Jr. His 1960 debut album SIN & SOUL ...AND THEN SOME Columbia/Legacy CK 64994) has just been re-issued. He also sings one of his riginal songs for us in NPR's performance studio.

Russia is angry over the White House's decision to block the sale of ultra-fast supercomuters to Moscow. The Russians say they need the technology to conduct virtual nuclear tests so that they won't have to conduct real nuclear testing, which is forbidden under September's nuclear test ban treaty. NPR's Andy Bowers reports the decision demonstrates the lingering distrust surrounding the nuclear arms race.

, has turned the once-gray city into a festival of lights.

Poet and Commentator Andre Codrescu brings us a modern adaptation of an old Romanian fairy tale. Set in modern New Orleans, it is a cautionary tale about a wish for eternal youth. A young couple tries desperately to have a child. Finally when they were about to give up, a supernatural method brings them a baby, but at a cost...they must promise him that he'll never grow old. When the child, nicknamed Almond Joy, turns 18, he sets out on a quest for what his parents can't deliver. He winds up in the Valley of Christmas, but this paradise of eternal youth bores him and he hits the road. But when he arrives in New Orleans, there is nothing there. His home is covered with dust and Almond Joy has become an old man.