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Linda talks with David Brooks of the Weekly Standard and Paul West of the Baltimore Sun about the Republican presidential candidates, Whitewater and the week in which House Speaker Newt Gingrich beat a tactical retreat from his hard line on the budget.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on beads and the way humans have doted, decorated, collected, traded, interpreted, identified, sold and bought with beads through the ages. It's said that beads are the second-oldest form of commerce known to mankind.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

A U.S. SOLDIER ASKED NPR TO DELIVER A TAPE DETAILING HIS ACTIVITIES IN BOSNIA TO HIS FAMILY STATIONED IN GERMANY---AND SAID WE COULD AIR SOME OF HIS THOUGHTS. SO WE DID.

Chris Richard has this report on religious worship behind bars. Richard reports that while many prisoners search out the chapel or synagogue on prison grounds out of noble intentions, others use church as an opportunity for deadly deeds. The constant possibility of wrongdoing keeps chaplins and rabbis on their guard even though they say many inmates are sincerely interested in their own spiritual evolution.

Commentator Lenny Kleinfeld lives in Los Angeles, where is has NOT been snowing. All the talk of the blizzard on the East Coast has him more than a little homesick for bad weather of the old-fashioned type.

slicing off only certain government programs for funding.

President Clinton was in Atlanta today, to commemorate the birthday of Martine Luther King, Junior. We hear remarks the President made at The Reverend Doctor King's former pulpit at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. (1:30) 11. LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL - On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

SCOTT TALKS WITH KETZEL AND ELIOT COLEMAN, AUTHOR OF "The New Organic Grower's Four Season Harvest," (Chelsea Green Publishing Co., P.O. Box 130, Route 113, Post Mills, Vermont 05058-0130) ABOUT ELIOT'S FOUR-SEASON GARDEN IN, OF ALL PLACES...COASTAL NORTHERN MAINE -- A GARDEN HE HARVESTED VEGETABLES FROM THIS WEEK!