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Anderson and Lieutenant Commander William G. Stubbs, who collided yesterday during combat training exercises in FA-18A Hornet fighter jets and managed to fly their damaged aircraft back to base...

Daniel talks with Andy Griffith about his latest endeavor in show business...a gospel album. Griffith says it has always been his dream to be a singer and he was actually a music major in college. Although he is close to 70 years old, he claims his voice has gotten better with age. Griffith's new cd is called I Love to Tell The Story. (SPARROW RECORDS)

- For several years the Stratfield public elementary school in Fairfield, Connecticut has scored high marks for academic excellence with a well established reputation as one of the best public schools in the nation. But Tandaleya Wilder of Connecticut Public Radio reports that recent allegations of test tampering have tarnished Stratfield's image...and led to an investigation of the school.

Liane speaks with New Yorker magazine theather critic John Lahr bout this year's awards. Controversy arose when Julie Andrews, star of ictor/Victoria, declined her nomination and producer David Merrick filed suit ver the way the awards were decided. Lahr thinks it was a good year for theater verall.

Commentator Marianne Jennings wonders about people who are addicted to their day planners...they are obsessed with organizing everything in their lives. It takes so much time to keep up with your day planner--there's so much writing and reviewing she wonders how anyone gets anything done...and says we all managed just fine without them.

President Clinton has ordered the sale of U.S. oil reserves, and Republicans in Congress are calling for a repeal of the 1993 gasoline tax. The increase has hit California the hardest... where oil companies must sell more expensive, cleaner-burning fuel to help keep down the state's high rates of air pollution... a gallon of gas in California is selling for as much as a dollar-and-73-cents.

Reporter Neal Tickner of member station WHYY reports on a University of Pennslyvania survey of 852 intensive care nurses, 16% of whom say they participated in euthanasia or assisted suicide -- sometimes at the request of patients, family members or physicians and sometimes on their own. Critical care specialists say this is not unusual. Nurses say the survey is misleading and may frighten patients.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Mahmoud El-Sharif (makh-MOOD ell shah-REEF), Jordanian political analyst and founder of the newspaper Ad-Dusdur (AHD DOOS doohr) News. He says that while Jordan regards the Israeli election as an internal Israeli affair, there is disappointment and confusion among those who support the peace process in Jordan. He believes that if the Netanyahu government adheres to the policies touted by Likud in the election campaign, the peace process is effectively over.

Alan Cheuse reviews Mangos, Bananas, and Coconuts by Himilse (ee-MEEL-say) Novas (NOH-vass). It's about miracles, magic and the Cuban culture, with a satirical twist. The premise ...fraternal twins separted at birth are destined to reunited later in life. The Publisher is Arte Publico.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu tells the story into an old Russian man in a photo shop. The manager of the shop gave a few bits of information about the man which led Codrescu to fanatize about the contents of his room.