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Mike Shuster examines the relative ease with which weapons grade nuclear material might be smuggled out of the former Soviet Union and into the United States.

on the transformation of Hezbollah from a politically weak party to a force that far transcends the number of seats in parliament. Each day of fighting has turned the Lebanese to look to Hezbollah as an expression of the national will.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from a UN-controlled refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. Whatever may be happening on diplomatic circles, refugees on the ground see no end to the disruption of their lives.

Noah talks with Bobby Plump, who scored the winning shot in the 1954 Milan Indiana high school basketball championship which was the depicted in the movie "Hoosiers". Plump organized the group "Friends of Hoosier Hysteria," to fight against a change in the traditional one-class tournament system. The group lost its fight today when the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted today to change to a multi class tournament format based on school enrollment.

Noah talks to Fred Davis, a computer consultant and author of "Windows '95 Bible." Davis is at the Internet World conference in San Jose, California. He says that the big new technologies at the convention talk... they allow voice conversations, like phone conversations, over the Internet. The URL for the convention is HTTP://www.iworld.com/

Robert talks with Brian Hanrahan of the BBC about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to Syria. Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus to discuss the possibility of securing a ceasefire in Lebanon. President Clinton sent Christopher on a diplomatic shuttle to the Middle East after Israeli shelling killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians last Thursday.

Mitsubishi Motors shut down two assembly-line shifts today and paid for more than two thousand workers to travel to Chicago and protest an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sexual harassment lawsuit against the company. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the company-sponsored rally is unprecedented.

Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who has been charged with masterminding the Sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway last year...

Clarinetist, bandleader, and curmudgeon...but kind of a right-on curmudgeon. Shaw quit playing music more than thirty years ago...just when he had what most might consider "it all": money, fame, beautiful wives (lots of them). Now he lives alone and writes novels and short stories. Dean Olsher visited him at home and has this report.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the vote by the Palistinian parliament-in-exile to revoke sections of the PLO charter calling for Israel's destruction. The vote, which was boycotted by radical members of the PLO, was hailed by Israel as an historic move.