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the federal health insurance program for the poor, NPR's Vicky Que looks at a trend in some states to cut back or eliminate their own medical assistance programs which provide health care to the unemployed and working poor who are not covered by Medicaid. Is it a harbinger of what they might do with the federal program?

Robert and Linda read letters from listeners. Letters can be addressed to ATC LETTERS - 635 Massachussetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20001 or by E-mail at ATC@NPR.ORG.

Publisher of The Nation, VICTOR NAVASKY. He was one of a group of writers who in 1967 conceived of a literary hoax. The book "Report From Iron Mountain," was penned by Leonard Lewin and was a satire, supposedly written by a commission of eminent scholars about the problems that would arise in the United States if "permanent peace" should arrive. The book has been compared to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and "Dr. Strangelove" for its social and political commentary. It wasn't until 1972 that Lewin admitted the hoax. Even so, extreme-right fringe groups have now taken the book to heart "as proof of a secret government plot to suppress personal liberties." The book has been reissued, (by The Free Press) with an introduction by VICTOR NAVASKY. REV: Rock historian ED WARD continues his series on the instruments of rock and roll. Today's installment: the keyboards.

NPR'S SUNNI KHALID REPORTS FROM LEBANON ON THE COUNTRY'S SKEPTICISM THAT ANY CEASEFIRE BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HIZBOLLAH GUERRILLAS WILL HOLD.

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.

Although the fishing season started last weekend in Wisconsin many of the northern lakes are still frozen. Nick Van der Puy [pie] found one fishing spot where anglers are catching walleye.

Daniel talks with Robert Samuelson, author of "The Good Life And Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995" (Times Books). Samuelson says the current pessimism that many Americans feel is related to a post-World War Two optimism. He says we've turned the so-called "American Dream" into a fantasy of a Utopian Society in which there are no social or economic problems. But, he says, we cannot expect to solve our problems once and for all - that we'll always need to deal with them.

Today, Israeli troops shelled the headquarters a battalion of U-N peacekeeping troops in South Lebannon. The compound was filled with dozens of refugees. At least seventy-four people are reported dead and many others wounded. Robert Siegel talks with U-N spokesman Timur (TEE-more) Goksel (GOCK-sull) from his office in Southern Lebanon about the shelling. Mr. Goksel describes the compound that was hit and the refugees who were seeking shelter there.

about the detention of the Unabomber suspect... and the 18 years of terror he is accused of.

revelations that the White House turned a blind eye to Iran shipping arms into Bosnia to aid the government in Sarajevo.