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Linda Gradstein reports on the trial of confessed assassin Yigal Amir, who drew gasps from court spectators when he was handed a gun to demonstrate how he was tackled after shooting Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

with television industry officials. In his State of the Union address, the president proposed a conference for the TV industry to explore ways in which it could improve the kinds of programming children are exposed to.

Lynne Terry reports that in advance his visit to the United States, French President Jacques Chirac called an early end to his government's controversial series of underground nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Saying that the tests guarantee a "viable and modern defense," he announced that the sixth test would be the last.

In our ongoing series of stump speeches delivered by the Presidential candidates, we hear an excerpt from an address by Alan Keyes.

Kahn about how the Chinese government hopes to control the flow of information in a world of new and expanding information sources. The Internet is especially targeted by China in an effort to limit users to only that information which the government approves.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that U.S. relations with China appear to be heating up again, just in time for the U.S. presidential election.

John Testrake, the TWA pilot who demonstrated extraordinary cool when his Flight 847 was hijacked to Beirut in 1985, has died of cancer at the age of 68.

Commentator Marion Winik in her late 30's and PMS has set in. It makes her a total nut. One day she behaved so badly she called a parent counselor, the school counselor, her ob-gyn and almost called social services to come and take her away for being a bad parent.

Alan Cheuse reviews Mario Vargas Lllosa's new book "Death in the Andes". It's a political detective story set in his native country of Peru. (published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux)

Robert talks with Ken Auletta, media writer with the New Yorker, Bob Lucky who is vice president of applied research for Bellcore and author of "Silicon Dreams", and Peter Huber, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of "Orwell's Revenge." They project what changes we can expect to see in the next 15 years as a result of the Telecommunications Bill.