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SCOTT SPEAKS WITH REP. FRANK WOLF (R-VA) ABOUT HIS EFORTS TO MAKE THE 104TH CONGRESS A MORE "FAMILY-FRIENDLY" PLACE. THIS WEEK, REP. WOLF SHOWED THE FILM "WHERE'S DAD" ON CAPITOL HILL IN ORDER TO MAKE THE POINT THAT LAWMAKERS SHOULD SPEND TIME WITH THEIR OWN FAMILIES JUST AS THEY MAKE LAWS THAT EFFECT OUR NATION'S FAMILIES.

SIMON/N.Y. TOKENS: SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BOB SLOVAK OF NEW YORK CITY'S METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF COLOMBIAN 20 PESO COINS ...WORTH ONLY 2 CENTS HERE...IN SUBWAY TURNSTILES WHERE THE $1.50 TOKENS SHOULD GO.

NPR'S MARIA HINOJOSA REPORTS ON SEXUAL ABUSE PERPERTRATED BY WOMEN, A SUBJECT THAT IS OFTEN OVERLOOKED. (please refer to previous dacs messages concerning this report. The segment concentrates on subject matter some listeners may find offensive. A station advisory is advisable.)

Guest film critic STEPHEN VINEBERG reviews the new film, "Devil With a Blue Dress." REV. :Critic MILO MILES reviews the newest book by Walter Mosely. It''s not an Easy Rawlins book. It''s R.L.''S Dream, (Norton) a book about the blues told in the voice of down and out, country-blues musician Soupspoon.REV. : Commentator DAGOBERTO GILB wonders why he keeps returning to the bullfights.

Sandy Tolan reports on Israel and Jordan and their joint efforts to harness the sun for energy purposes. The two countries signed a peace treaty one year ago.

NPR's David Molpus visits a community near Fayetteville, North Carolina, a place where some 1,000 retired Green Berets live. Molpus says these men, who gained fame during the Vietnam war, are still trying to cope with the war and its aftermath.

Critic STEVE VINEBERG reviews a new film version of Shakespeare''s "Othello." It stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, and Kenneth Brannagh (BRAN - UH) as Iago.

NPR'S PETER OVERBY REPORTS ON THE NEW SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTED IN THE NEWT GINGRICH ETHICS CASE

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the day's negotiations on Capitol Hill over reopening the federal government. The White House today responded to an offer presented by Republicans last night..with its own counter offer. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers nationwide have been furloughed since Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered one week ago, and NPR's Andy Bowers pieces together a chronology of how the assassination took place. He reports from Jerusalem.