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Supreme Court today dealing with cable television programming. At issue is whether cable operators have the constitutional right to restrict so-called indecent programs.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the fight for the soul of the Republican party got underway in earnest today, as Pat Buchanan, riding the momentum of his New Hampshire victory, campaigned in South Carolina. Buchanan pushed economic nationalism hard and appealed to former Phil Gramm supporters, one of whom, Phyllis Schafely of Eagle Forum fame, joined his team today.

Noah Adams talks to Dot Jackson, who lives by herself near the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. She says that she hasn't had power for two days because of the weather, but she isn't too cold because she has a wood stove. She says that whenever she goes to get wood, all the birds hiding from the cold in her woodpile fly out.

Danny, in copy, recalls, the life of Robert Cardin, a nine year old who died this past week. Cardin was one of the first infants in this country to receive a heart transplant, in 1986. He wasn't even a month old at the time of the transplant. Then, we hear a commentary by Dr. Robert Verghese, about "percussion," a medical technique in which a physician thumps a patient's body as part of an examination.

Daniel talks with Dr. Jeanne McCauley, chief researcher of a new study on women and abuse. According to McCauley, her study reveals that 1 in 3 women report having experienced physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lives. And that often these women will show up in a doctor's office complaining of symptoms that have no apparent cause. The implications, McCauley says, are that women who are or have been in abusive situations sometimes exhibit other kinds of physical symptoms, such as stomach aches, head aches, dizziness or urinary tract problems that may have nothing directly to do with the abuse but are a result of it. We follow the McCauley interview with a story by Dr. Richard Weinberg, a gastroenterologist, who once had a patient who complained of stomach problems. While there was nothing physically wrong with her, Dr. Weinberg discovered that her stomach complaints were a product of stress due to a rape that had occurred several years before.

Daniel talks with Utah Republican Governor Michael Levitt and Deleware's Democratic Governor Thomas Carper about the Federal Budget winding thru Congress. States are being handed responsibilities for programs that for several decades have been run by the Federal Government. The two governor offer their opinions as to whether their states are ready for the added responsibility.

Daniel talks with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof about how the Japanese government recruited tens of thousands of Japanese women into prostitution following World War Two. The women were sometimes pressed into service against their will. Their clients were American G.I.'s.

Daniel talks with a new young poet - Matthew Rohrer - whose first book is called "A Hummock in the Malookas" (W. W. Norton and Company). Rohrer's surrealist poetry gives life to the thoughts and feelings of inanimate objects - like a bridge, a fork, a mop. Following the Rohrer interview is a song by the Baltimore group 'Three Pigs Cafe' called 'The Thank-you Song'.

Linda speaks with Carl Sferrazza (SPHERE- RAZ-ZAH) Anthony who is author of a two vlume book about American 1st Ladies. Mr. Anthony takes us through the history of the attacks, both political and journalistic, that first ladies have endured.

About 30 million people use cellular phones in the United States. During the Blizzard of '96, cellular communications played an important part in connecting people not only with their friends and family, but also with emergency services. The storm followed a path over the cellular network of Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile, which noticed an increase in cellular phone calls during the storm. Robert talks with Steve Fleischer of Bell Atlantic NYNEX Mobile and Rick Ketterman, the Emergency Management Director of Pennsylvania's Adams County.