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One aspect of campaigning that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has mastered is his ability to find some personal link to just about every place he visits. Either he was stationed there as a young military officer or he recuperated there after his war injury. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold gives examples from recent Dole campaign trips of this age-old political technique for connecting with voters.

Scott speaks with journalist and host for member station WBUR's news talk show "Connections" about the Senate race in Massachusetts. It pits Republican governor William Weld against the Democratic incumbent John Kerry.

- Daniel speaks with New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who's covered the Middle East for more than 20 years. She's written a new book, called "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East" (Simon and Shuster). Judith and Danny talk about some of the Arab leaders attending the Cairo summit: Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Hafez el-Assad of Syria.

Veta Christy reports on Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequots Indians who have built a gambling empire and now want to invest profits to build high speed ferries.

about Magic Johnson's return to the NBA.

Robert talks with Ron Elving, political editor for the Congressional Quarterly, about this year's presidential primaries. Many states have set primary elections earlier, so that by the end of March the Republican candidate is likely to be determined. Elving attributes this in part to what he calls New Hampshire and Iowa envy, and says compressed primaries are advantageous to the Republican party in the '96 presidential elections. 2. A FRESHMAN -- Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.

Samuel Hendren of member station of WUAL reports that many of the residents of the tiny community of Gees Bend, in Alabama are excited of the prospects that ferry service will be restored to their town after 30 years. The community, one of the poorest in the state, is located in an oxbow of the Alabama River, surrounded on three sides by water. Thirty-five years ago ferry service was terminated to prevent civil rights organizers from working with the residents, who are the descendents of former slaves. (s

as the number of African-Americans dwindles and the number of Latinos rises.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Republican candidates would do well to take some lessons from the results of the Iowa caucuses.

about his work, which evokes the Kentucky landscape of his boyhood. Crunk reads from his latest collection, which is titled, "Living in the Resurrection."