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Neal speaks with Norma Arata (UH-rah-TUH), who makes and sells the authentic Kennedy rocker. Mrs. Arata's late husband, Larry, made 12 rocking chairs for President Kennedy designed to ease his back pains. Two of the rockers sold at a Sotheby's auction this week in New York. (5:00) (The Authentic Kennedy Rocker is available through Norma Arata in McLean, Virginia 703-536

Neal Conan reviews the week's news with Steve Roberts of U.S. News and World Report.

Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Hudson, professor of International Relations & Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studiesat Georgetown University and Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy about the role Syrian President Assad is now playing in the middle east. Stereo (6:30) (IN S

A study released today by the non-profit organization Public Agenda, shows that 93% of the general public, and 88% of welfare recipients, want the current welfare system changed. The study, "The Values We Live By: What Americans Want from Welfare Reform," also finds that 4 in 10 Americans say that they or someone in their close family has received benefits at some time. Robert Siegel speaks with the study's author, Steve Farkas, Vice President and Director of Public Agenda.

in Seattle to hear patients' reactions to the FDA's decision to recognize the needles of the ancient Chinese medicine as a healing aid...

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that National Transportation Safety Board officials say they have obtained good data from the flight recorder from ValuJet 592 recovered yesterday in the Everglades. They declined to be more specific this afternoon, saying they were still analyzing the data that will hopefully shed some light on why the DC-9 crashed three days, killing 109 people.

Neal reads some listeners' comments.

Secretary of State Warren Christopher to forge a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon...

Linda talks to Joanna Weschler, the United Nations representative of Human Rights Watch. The United States and the European Union proposed at a meeting this week in Geneva that the UN's commission on Human Rights take up a proposal to criticize China's human right record. However, China's political maneuvering among the members of the commission kept the proposal from being debated. Weschler says that is not good for the future of human rights in China because it indicates that China feels that it is about the rules of international relations.

Retired pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian is on trial again. He is charged with assisting in the suicides of two of his patients. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that this trial raises the question of whether people who are not terminally ill have the right to a doctor's help in killing themselves.