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Six foreign aid workers, including four nurses, were shot at point-blank range and killed today at a Red Cross hospital south of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The identities of those responsible remain unknown; both the Russian and Chechen governments have condemned the attack.

Street protests in Belgrade continue against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli talks about what seems an inevitable victory for an opposition that's gotten plenty of international support.

Scott speaks with actor Angela Lansbury about her roots in England and in the musical theater.... and about her starring role in a new musical for television: 'Mrs. Santa Claus'. (airs Sunday night o

Banning Eyre reviews the latest recording by the Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife. The work features the Arabic lute, the oud. It's entitled "Jadal: Oud Duo" and it's part of Khalife's on-going attempt to create a solo instrumental repertoire for the oud, which is traditionallly used as a backing instrument for a singer. Eyre finds the piece, which runs just over and hour, to be addictive!

Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone with a report on juvenile stand-up comics.

- Jacki speaks with Albany, Georgia, City Commissioner Marvin Bannister, who wants to pull the plug on the televised procedings of his commission. Bannister wants to thwart his rivals in neighboring towns, who are using videotape of the commission's inept deliberations to lure business away from Albany.

- Jacki talks with Bruce Harris, Director of Covenant House, a Latin America-based organization dedicated to helping the increasing numbers of homeless kids living on the streets of the region's cities. Harris is about to travel to Sweden with three of the kids to receive a humanitarian award.

taking place in the breakaway Russian republic.

which the Supreme Court hears today. At issue is a Kansas law, similar to those in five other states, that allows authorities to commit a convicted sex offender to a mental institution indefinitely and involuntarily, even after that person has served a full sentence.