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Democrat Ron Wyden wins the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Bob Packwood -- before interest groups were taking credit. Environmentalists, pro-choicers, unions, and the Democratic Party all say they made the difference in the reed-slim victory margin. NPR's Wendy Kaufman finds local pols saying negative campaigning, the weather, and the first-ever mail-in balloting had more to do with the result.

U.S.-Iran relations are expected to get even tougher when a new Iranian president takes office Thursday. He's a former prosecutor expected to take a hard line inside and outside the country.

Robert talks to Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, about his effort to change the Amtrack decision of dropping the names of some of its trains, like the Night Owl, and replacing the names with numbers.

From the audio archives on the occasion of Lincoln's Birthday: a 1942 recording of "Abraham" by Irving Berlin, arranged by Chico Marx and sung by Mel Torme.

As part of our campaign coverage, we've been hearing from candidates as they travel around the country seeking support. Senator Robert Dole, in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership conference last month in Mobile, Alabama, says he wants to eliminate the departments of education, commmerce, energy and housing as a way to downsize the federal government. He says the United States has lost prestige as the leader of the free world because we haven't had a foreign policy. Dole says as president, American soldiers would not serve under United Nations command.

riding a wave of public popularity, has decided to call an early general election -- in May rather than October -- to try to secure a more comfortable parliamentary majority.

hard adapting to a sedentary way of life. For centuries, Tuareg families have wandered the Sahara Desert with their camels and goats. Now they are trying to settle into farming, and they miss their traditional lifestyle.

DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH ALICE RIVLIN, DIRECTOR OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, AND TOMMY THOMPSON, GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION --- ABOUT THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF STATES. THE NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION HAD IT'S WINTER MEETING THIS WEEK.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT READS SOME LISTENER COMMENTS.