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NPR's Mara Liasson reports...a Clinton judicial nominee withdrew his name from consideration today. Florida attorney..Charles Stack..a dmeocratic fundraiser has been criticized by Bob Dole as an example of a bad judicial nomination.

to the phone call he received yesterday from Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, informing him of Dole's plans to resign from the Senate and devote himself full time to his Republican presidential campaign.

Linda Wertheimer talks with former senator Howard Baker, who was Senate Majority Leader at one point in his career. When he ran for President, he did not resign from the Senate...a move he now views as a mistake.

Linda speaks with Father John Beal, associate professor of canon law at Catholic University in Washington, DC. He explains the law of excommunication as it applies to the blanket decree that went into effect yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. Twelve organizations have been singled out by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lincoln, as being "perilous to the Catholic faith."

A seven-year-old girl trying to become the youngest person to fly across the country died today in a plane crash near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Heather Wessley of Wyoming Public radio reports that Jessica Dubroff was flying a four-seat Cessna with her father and her flight instructor. The plane was leaving Cheyenne in bad weather and crashed in a residential area about a half-mile from the runway. Flyers must be 16 to hold a license under FAA rules.

NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that researchers have isolated the gene that causes Werner's syndrome, an unusual disorder that causes young adults to age prematurely. In addition to helping researchers understand more about that disease, the finding may provide clues to the natural aging process.

Republicans and President Clinton both want to reduce federal taxes on gasoline. In fact, other countries pay much higher taxes on their gasoline, partly to pay for roads and to ameliorate environmental damage from auto traffic. Environmentalists argue that gas taxes should be high to pay for such costs, but some economists say it's unfair to place such a high burden on this one commodity, which is so crucial to economic activity.

A quick look at the leader of the right to die movement in Canada. Kevorkian assisted his suicide even while on trial in Michigan for the same thing. (2:00) 2A CUTAWAY 0:59 2B 13. SS OFFICER ON TRIAL -- NPR'S Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the trial of a former Nazi SS Captain charged with one of Italy's worst massacres during the second World War. Erich Priebke ((preeb-keh)) was extradited to Italy last November from Argentina. He stands accused for his part in killing of 335 men and boys near Rome in 1944.

The President added new restrictions to the military's use of mines yesterday but decided against ordering an all-out ban on U.S. use of the weapons. He said his advisors would work to develop an international ban. Opponents of the devices were disappointed by the President's compromise decision.

Commentator Elissa Ely (EEL-eye) writes about a psychiatric patient who always carried his resume and taked of reading great literature-- Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and the writings of Spinoza. Ely committed him to a hospital despite his insistence that he is quote "in all his fine senses." Years later, she has some perspective on the experience.