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Linda Wertheimer speaks wtih Janet Fleischman, Washington director of Human Rights Watch/Africa. She describes some of the recent political history of Liberia and attempts to current descent into factional chaos the country is experiencing. The current fighting represents the failure of the 12th agreement in the last several years which attempted to bring all the conflicting parties together within a single authority which would lead to a government.

Charles Scanlon previews South Korea's parliamentary elections that will beheld tomorrow. The public has been disaffected from the ruling party because of a corruption scandal. But tensions with North Korea may give the government a last-minute boost.

item veto bill today. It will allow a president to eliminate specific items in spending legislation, as well as very narrow tax loopholes and new entitlements. The new law, which presidents have called for for decades, goes into effect next January and will expire in eight years unless Congress extends it. Proponents say it will help cut the deficit. But NPR's Mara Liasson reports that many analysts are skeptical about the line-item veto's effectiveness.

Drew says it's almost Shakespearean. (Simon & Shuster)

continuing military exercises off the coast of Taiwan.

Noah talks with Rosanne Cash, who has written a new collection of short fiction called "Bodies of Water". We visit her at her favorite restaurant in Greenwich Village, to talk about her writing life, inspiration, technique, and how being a singer/songwriter for more than twenty years has prepared her for the prose she is now writing. IN STEREO NOTE: "Bodies of Water" will be available in most bookstores by early next week (the week of 3/18/96). The publisher is Hyperion Books.

bill, but not before restrictions on legal immigration were removed.

Gennady Zyuganov, who is challenging President Yeltsin in June's election.

Jennie Schmidt of member station KPLU reports on the impending shooting of recidivist sea lions in Seattle. It's the same group that returns year after year to shipping locks in Puget Sound where steelhead trout swim upriver to spawn. There aren't many trout left, and wildlife biologists, having failed to dissuade the hungry sea lions, now want to shoot them.

NPR's Mike Shuster talks with Russia's foremost human rights advocate, Sergei Kovalyov ((sair-gay koh-vahl-YOV)). Kovalyov recently resigned his position as chief human rights adviser to President Yeltsin. Kovalyov addresses the candidacy of the communists, the upcoming presidential election and how Yeltsin could end the war in Chechnya.