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Commentator Alan Siporin lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he wonders, after the flooding there, why only the people with property receive relief from natural disasters. He wonders why the homeless are overlooked.

plan aimed at addressing the economic anxiety of many Americans. The new agenda is a response to the fact that most of the issues that the GOP has been pursuing in Washington, including the Contract with America, have been all but ignored on the campaign trail.

in America, reports that cultural changes, especially in the role of women, are helping to widen the difference between families at the top and bottom of America's income ladder.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Andy Kohut. He directs the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. They have a new national survey that suggests Pat Buchanan's populist appeal may be bringing blue collar voters into the Republican fold. But the same rhetoric that wins working class support is alienating traditional Republican voters. LIVE

Commentator Jack Beatty says Clinton has done everything he can to keep American wages down. He says the re-appointment of Alan Greenspan is a disaster for the American worker...and his other recent appointments, Alice Rivlin and Laurence Meyer are champions of slow economic growth---again, the enemy of the worker.

Linda checks-in with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold who was with the Dole and Buchanan campaigns today -- and with Glenn Frankel who has been writing about Steve Forbes for the Washington Post... about events on the campaign trail today.

Danny speaks with NPR's Nancy Cohen, who was on board one of the Cuban-American ships in a flotilla that headed out to Cuba today to participate in a ceremony honoring the four civilian pilots who were killed last Saturday when Cuban MIGs shot them out of the sky. The flotilla was unable to reach its destination -- the spot where the planes were downed -- because of poor weather.

Danny speaks with journalist Tad Szulc (pronounced: Shultz), who has followed Castro and the Cuban revolution since its inception in 1959. They talk about American efforts to undermine Castro, including the CIA's plots to assassinate the Cuban leader during the 1960's.

will hear arguments in three cases involving federal sentencing guidelines. In today's case the issue is whether two Los Angeles police officers convicted in the Rodney King beating case were given enough jail time under federal rules.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that Pat Buchanan's first place finish in New Hampsire raises some intersting questions for the Republican Party. Republicans, who have built their economic policies around free markets and free trade, have seen a decidedly non-free trade candidate take the first primary of the 1996 elections.