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Robert talks with Jon Miller in Lima, Peru, about the latest developments in the hostage situation at the residence of the Japanese ambassador. Negotiations are underway with leftist rebels who are holding as many as 490 captives, including senior Peruvian officials and numerous foreign diplomats. The guerrillas are demanding the release of imprisoned comrades, a ransom, and safe passage to Peru's jungles.

to read a poem at President Clinton's inauguration later this month. Williams is a professor of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Arkansas. He follows poet Maya Angelou, who read her work at the inauguration four years ago.

Linda talks with U-S Representative David Skaggs (D, CO) about the lawsuit he and five other members of Congress filed, challenging the constitutionality of the new law which gives the President line-item veto power. Skaggs believes the line-item veto law tips the balance of power in favor of the executive branch and away from Congress.

Noah talks to Katy Daley, an on-air personality at commercial radio station WMZQ in Washington, DC, about John Duffey, founder of the bluegrass group "The Seldom Scene." Duffey died yesterday at age 62 after a heart attack. Duffey was also in "The Country Gentlemen", an earlier group that helped popularize bluegrass. He played mandolin and sang in a high, tenor voice.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on new tensions in Israel, following the drive-by shooting of a Jewish settler family outside of Ramallah, which left a mother and child dead. A radical Palestinian group based in Damascus claimed responsibility. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank "heroes" at the family funerals today, a statement that seemed certain to further aggravate growing Palestinian anger over settlement growth in the West Bank.

about the summit meeting of European Union leaders trying to agree on the terms for monetary union before the end of the century.

Several recent safety problems at a Connecticut nuclear power plant have prompted the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require nuclear plants across the country to update the safety information they have on file with the NRC. As NPR's Dan Charles reports, it's not clear whether plants are unsafe now, or whether updated safety instructions will make them safe if they're not.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem that after the intercession of King Hussein and the threat that the US mediator Denis Ross would pack up and go home, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are finally close to signing an agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. But what was held up the talks is not so much reaching an agreement on how the withdrawal should be handled. The real concern appears to be getting a commitment to time tables for further Israeli withdrawals in the next year from the occupied West Bank countryside.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the continuation of OJ Simpson's testimony under questioning by his defense lawyers in his civil trial. The trial is part of the "wrongful death" suit filed by the families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. An attorney for the plaintiffs will also get a chance to question Simpson today.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green says that both sides of the debate about abortion are afraid to talk about the issue this season -- it's the giant issue both the Democrats and the Republicans wish would just go away.