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Daniel talks with Patrick Leahy, democratic senator from Vermont, about Leahy's proposal to restrict the usage of landmines. Leahy sponsored a bill that passed in the senate that calls for a moratorium on landmine usage by the United States. But the Pentagon opposes Leahy's efforts and is working to scud similiar legislation in the House.

Former three-term Governor for New York State MARIO CUOMO and one of the Democratic party's most respected spokesperson. Since losing office in the 1994 republican-landslide election, CUOMO has started his own nationally syndicated radio show. His new book, Reason to Believe (Simon & Schuster) is his critique of the Republican's Contract with America.

2: American Conductor JOHN MAUCERI (MOW-Cherry). He is the host and narrator of a new PBS Great Performances documentary, "Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound." MAUCERI also composes the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music from Hollywood films from the 30's and 40s'. (The documentary airs tonight at 9:30). MAUCERI is currently music director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in L.A. He has two new CDs: "Between Two Worlds: Music of Korngold," and "The Sound of Hollywood: Music From the Movies" (both on London records).

Interview with JOHN MAUCERI continued.

PEANUT BUTTER: ANOTHER HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY...OF THE FIRST PATENT APPLIED FOR ON A PRODUCT 85 PERCENT OF AMERICAN HOUSEHOLDS STOCK IN THEIR CUPBOARDS...PEANUT BUTTER! SCOTT SPEAKS WITH DUFF STOLTZ OF THE ADVENTIST HERITAGE MISSION MUSEUM OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. 2:59.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Brown Sugar" (EMI label) the debut album by the singer named D''Angelo and "R. Kelly" (Jive records) by the rapper R. Kelly. Both are R&B albums.

Laura Sydell reports from New York on the impact the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin is having within the Jewish community there.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that congressional Republicans and the Clinton White House are moving closer to a showdown over Medicare reform. First, House Republicans unveiled a plan to wring $270 billion from the national health insurance program for the elderly. Then, President Clinton threatened a veto, unless the cuts were scaled back. Now, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole says the cutbacks in the Senate's Medicare reform bill will probably equal the savings in the house bill.

Daniel talks to James Jones about the psychological basis for racism. He says that blacks and whites have different cultural and individual experiences from whites, so that when a white individual and a black individual interact, there may be some racial tension even though the white person does not think of himself or herself as a racist.

Professor RICHARD FOULDS. He teaches at the University of Delaware. He's the father of a child with A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) and a member of C.H.A.D.D. a non-profit organization directed by parents of children with ADD