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NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on beads and the way humans have doted, decorated, collected, traded, interpreted, identified, sold and bought with beads through the ages. It's said that beads are the second-oldest form of commerce known to mankind.

NPR's David Welna reports on the rising tide of protest against President Ernesto Samper of Colombia who is being accused of accepting money from the Cali drug cartel. Members of Samper's government are distancing themselves from the president...while thousands of students and citizens have taken to the streets demanding Samper's resignation.

A former presidential aide testified before a House committee today about some notes he wrote in 1993 regarding the firings of White House travel office employees. The notes mention conversations in which third parties told the witness that Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted the employees fired. Mrs Clinton has said she did not direct any dismissals, and NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the witness testified that she did not tell him to fire them.

Linguist Hugh Matthews tells Noah Adams about mourning for who may have been the last known speaker of the Catawba Indian language. He recounts the years he spent with Red Thunder Cloud, a colorful person known at tribal gatherings for his dances, songs, and stories.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

Linda talks with David Brooks of the Weekly Standard and Paul West of the Baltimore Sun about the Republican presidential candidates, Whitewater and the week in which House Speaker Newt Gingrich beat a tactical retreat from his hard line on the budget.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the allied military campaign to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nearly five years after the end of the military conflict, United Nations sanctions against Iraq remain in place. NPR's Sunni Khalid visited Baghdad to see the effects of the sanctions on the people in the city and found that the economy has declined considerably in the past five years. Food prices have skyrocketed, the education system has declined, and the hospital system is short of supplies and medicines.

President Clinton was in Atlanta today, to commemorate the birthday of Martine Luther King, Junior. We hear remarks the President made at The Reverend Doctor King's former pulpit at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. (1:30) 11. LETTER FROM THE BIRMINGHAM JAIL - On this observance of the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear an excerpt of a letter written by King while he was imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He is responding to a letter written by several white clergymen who criticized King's acts of civil disobedience and suggested his civil rights agenda could best be achieved in the courts. The exceprt is read by actor Wilson Cain III.

Commentator Lenny Kleinfeld lives in Los Angeles, where is has NOT been snowing. All the talk of the blizzard on the East Coast has him more than a little homesick for bad weather of the old-fashioned type.

former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, about how the budget impasse is affecting financial markets. Reischauer is now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.