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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.

Vincent Thompson of member station WHYY reports on the major dispruption on Interstate-95, five miles north of Philadelphia. Arsonists set a huge pile of illegally dumped tires on fire, and that, in turn, damaged a section of the highway that carries about 150-thousand cars each day.

Commentator Ona [OH-nah] Sipporin was in Alaska this week -- to see part of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. While in the Village of Takatna [tah-KAHT-nah], she saw a community turn out in force to offer hospitality and warmth to the mushers and their dogs.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that although many are focusing on who Robert Dole should choose as a running mate, the real task ahead of him is how to function as Senate Majority Leader when his presidential rival is head of the executive branch.