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in Charleston, South Carolina about the upcoming South Carolina primary. The state has 37 delegates.

Commentator Lee Cullum says the rise of Pat Buchanan is a disaster for the country. If he contiues to win, he will destroy relations with other nations and make the politics of hate acceptable and tolerable. While Buchanan is right to worry about corporate downsizing and job losses, Cullum maintains he's wrong if he thinks he can reverse that trend with protectionism.

Noah talks with Miami Herald columnist Liz Balmaseda about Brothers to the Rescue, the Cuban exile organization whose airplanes were shot down by Cuban warplanes last Saturday, sparking an international incident. Havana, justifying the dowing of the planes over Cuban territorial waters, charges Brothers to the Rescue is a terrorist organization. Balmaseda disagrees.

plans to send a flotilla of boats and aircraft to the area near Cuba, where Cuban MiGs shot down two small planes last Saturday. They say they will drop flowers into the water as a memorial to the four pilots who presumably died in the incident.

Noah talks with Carl Finch, a founder of the group "Brave Combo," whose album "Polka for a Gloomy World" has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Polka category. The Grammys are tomorrow night. Finch says that one main goal of his band's music is to "destroy people's misconceptions about what's cool in music." IN STEREO

Danny examines the state of the Republican presidential nomination campaign, one day after Bob Dole won the South Carolina primary, with our panel of editorial page editors: Jane Eisner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union-Tribune, and Billy Winn of the Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer.

Daniel speaks with playwright Emily Mann who's play 'Greensboro: A Requiem' tells the story of a massacre in 1979, where members of the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed 5 demonstrators who were protesting Klan activities. The play is based on interviews of survivors of the attack, as well as of Klansmen who took part in it. The play is being staged at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a Detroit woman for compensation for the car she co-owned with her husband. Authorities had confiscated the vehicle because it had been used for an illegal activity. Her husband had sex with a prostitute in the car. The wife maintained that she was innocent and her property was taken without due process. She asked for 300 dollars in compensation. The couple had bought the car for 600 dollars a month earlier. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports a divided Supreme Court has upheld the state's right to confiscate the car and denied the woman compensation.

The group that claimed responsibility for today's bombing is an Islamic extremist organization that rejects the Middle East peace process and wants an Islamic state in all of Israel and Palestine. But its leaders are split between those who want to achieve their goals politically and those who see violence as the only tactic.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that tensions between Taiwan and mainland China are escalating to the point where China is on the verge of conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait. The threat comes only weeks before Taiwan's presidential election, and is seen an attempt to intimidate Taiwanese voters.