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THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET, WHICH INCLUDES THE LEGENDARY CHARLIE BYRD, CELEBRATES 10 YEARS AS A GROUP. THEY PLAY AND TALK ABOUT THE UNIQUE NATURE OF BEING AN ALL CLASSICAL GUITAR BAND. 16:45 (The Washington Guitar Quintet CDs can be found in many record stores under Charlie Byrd's listings. The group has two CDs 1) CHARLIE BYRD/ THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET 2) AQUARELLE - CHARLIE BYRD WITH THE WASHINGTON GUITAR QUINTET If your local record shop does NOT have a copy call Concord Jazz Inc. 1-800-551-5299 or you can write to: Concord Jazz Inc. P.O. Box 845 Concord, CA.

SUSAN TALKS WITH NPR'S LINDA WERTHEIMER ABOUT THE WEEK'S POLITICAL NEWS AND SYNDICATED COLUMNIST GEORGIE ANN GEYER ABOUT THE REST OF THE WEEK'S NEWS.

spent the weekend campaigning in the midwest, where primaries will be held tomorrow in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio.

The FBI today said they've arrested more than a dozen suspected mob leaders indicted by a federal jury on 25 charges. Several of them were arraigned today in Detroit. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that virtually every mob leader in Detroit has been indicted.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the measures President Clinton will take against Cuba in response to Havana's shooting down of two unarmed civilian planes this weekend. Clinton says he is asking Congress to pass legislatin that allow the administration to compensate the families of the victims with money from Cuban assets frozen in the United States. He says the United States also will step up the embargo and the propaganda war against Cuba and cancel all charter flights between the United States and the island nation.

Commentator Elissa Ely talks about her brief flirtation with the legal profession as a member of her high school debating team. Examining her old text book and the notes scribbled into the margins, she sees in them the signs of a non-lawyer to be.

NPR's Ina Jaffe visits a treatment center in southern California where survivors of traumatic head injury relearn some of the basics of day-to-day living. Improvements in surgery and emergency medical care have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of brain-injured people, but at the same time created a need for a special kind of "rehabilitation of the mind."

Robert Siegel speaks with Robert Merry, author of "Taking On The World," a biography of Joseph and Stewart Alsop. Both were political columnists who had great influence in the United States of the post-World War II era. (8:00) (Publisher: V

Four years ago, Lead or Leave was founded as a poltical organization aimed at young Americans. Although the organization received a lot of press attention, commentator Michele Mitchell says the group, as well as Third Millenium, another organization aimed at the same generation, have both failed to attract many followers.