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Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

more efficient lights and motors is becoming a big business in the corporate world. He visits a glass factory in North Carolina that's cut more than a million dollars from its annual budget...while improving productivity.

The Justice Department announced yesterday that it would not appoint an independent counsel to investigate the fundraising activities of the Democratic National Committee. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports this decision is raising questions about the independent counsel law.

Robert talks with Binjamin Wilkomirski about the Holocaust. Wilkomirski's book, Fragments, is an account of his childhood experiences. The book has been translated into nine languages and has been published in eleven countries. As a very young child, Wilkomirski was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. He lived in barracks with other children. The language that he learned was a combination of the many languages to which he was exposed. He had no native tongue. He has no recollection of his mother... only of a woman he was brought to one day at the camp and was told was his mother. Wilkomirski tells Robert about the effect all of these experiences have had on his life, and his outlook on the world.

Commentator Elissa Ely tells the story of a patient who reliably appeared for every appointment... her monthly chart notes showed she was doing very well and the medication seemed to be keeping things stable. As it turns out, she never was taking the medication, but fooled all her doctors.

the latest movement of Hutu refugees toward the Rwandan border.

the United States and France, old allies and long-time rivals.

Noah Adams talks with two nuclear warfare experts about the significance of a statement signed by 60 retired military officers around the world, which calls for the virtual elimination of nuclear weapons. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired, is deputy director of the Center for Defense Information. From 1955 until 1980, he was responsible for planning and training for nuclear warfare. In the 1980s, as Director of Operations for U.S. forces in Europe and the Middle East, Carroll was responsible for 7,000 nuclear weapons. He signed the statement. Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. As part of the Reagan administration, he was responsible for negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms. Perle, who didn't sign the statement, says it's dangerous for the U.S. to get rid of all its nuclear weapons.

on education.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that it is not easy for people to immigrate legally to the United States, as the case of two sisters from the Philippines shows. More than a half million Filipinos are waiting to join relatives in the States, but that wait can take decades.