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NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that the Library of Congress' employee union is challenging the library's practice of ordering psychiatric exams for certain workers. The union says the library uses the practice to get rid of employees who had disputes with their supervisors. Library officials say they have used the tests to help workers and protect the institution.

We read a few of the early entries in our "Inane Use of the Third Person" contest.

Noah talks with Miami Herald columnist Liz Balmaseda about Brothers to the Rescue, the Cuban exile organization whose airplanes were shot down by Cuban warplanes last Saturday, sparking an international incident. Havana, justifying the dowing of the planes over Cuban territorial waters, charges Brothers to the Rescue is a terrorist organization. Balmaseda disagrees.

plans to send a flotilla of boats and aircraft to the area near Cuba, where Cuban MiGs shot down two small planes last Saturday. They say they will drop flowers into the water as a memorial to the four pilots who presumably died in the incident.

Linda Gradstein reports the terrorist bombings that have shaken Israelis this week are now reshaping the election campaign. The opposition Likud Party is gaining ground, since the public believes it would get tougher on the Palestinians.

Danny examines the state of the Republican presidential nomination campaign, one day after Bob Dole won the South Carolina primary, with our panel of editorial page editors: Jane Eisner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union-Tribune, and Billy Winn of the Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer.

Daniel speaks with playwright Emily Mann who's play 'Greensboro: A Requiem' tells the story of a massacre in 1979, where members of the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed 5 demonstrators who were protesting Klan activities. The play is based on interviews of survivors of the attack, as well as of Klansmen who took part in it. The play is being staged at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey.

have formed a support group to share their tales of what it's like to live in an overseemingly white region. Blacks make up only one percent of New Hampshire's population. and that is over half the state's minority population.

The group that claimed responsibility for today's bombing is an Islamic extremist organization that rejects the Middle East peace process and wants an Islamic state in all of Israel and Palestine. But its leaders are split between those who want to achieve their goals politically and those who see violence as the only tactic.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that tensions between Taiwan and mainland China are escalating to the point where China is on the verge of conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait. The threat comes only weeks before Taiwan's presidential election, and is seen an attempt to intimidate Taiwanese voters.