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Robert talks with Jeffrey Rosen, legal affairs correspondent for the New Republic magazine. They discuss the friend-of-the-court brief submitted by the American Medical Association today to the Supreme Court which opposed physician-assisted suicide, and what this brief means for both the issue of assisted suicide, and for healthcare providers nationwide.

Employees who retired thinking that they were covered by lifetime health care benefits are saying that companies, like Pabst Brewery, are not living up to their promises. The companies say they never offered guaranteed lifetime benefits. With companies cutting back to save money, Labor Secretary Robert Reich says the government is reviewing the benefit packages to determine if the contracts should be enforced or if employees were fully informed about what they were offered. Joanne Silberner reports.

He's the man who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. CARL PERKINS has also written the songs, "Matchbox," "Honey Don't," and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" which have been recorded by the Beatles. PERKINS is the pioneer of a style of music called Rockabilly, which is described as "a country man's song with a black man's rythm." PERKINS, born in Tennessee, learned to play guitar from his uncle and formed a band with his two brothers before touring the South with Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. It was Cash who gave Perkins the idea for the song, "Blue Suede Shoes." PERKINS has just written a new book, entitled "Go, Cat, Go!"(Hyperion) in which he talks about his career. (He also has a new CD of the same title on Dinosaur Entertainment.

on a school board race in that state that was decided by a toss of a coin. Two candidates for the Limestone County school board were tied.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service says it deported a record 67-thousand illegal aliens in the fiscal year that ended last month. But, critics say in another area the INS has been sloppy, allowing tens of thousands of aliens to become naturalized citizens despite their criminal records. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

Daniel Schorr says that although the issue of secret campaign contributions was thought to have been resolved during Watergate, the latest scandal with soft money illustrates that it was not.

Seven men were indicted yesterday for stealing thirteen million dollars worth of military equipment from an army base in western Wisconsin. Steve Busalacchi from Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison reports that the thieves sold the equipment to museums and collectors.

The White House and Congress settled on a bill authorizing numerous new parks yesterday. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the winners--San Francisco's Presidio Park, for example--and some of the losers, including Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on President Clinton's improved chances of winning the state of Florida in November.

Commentator Jim Wallis says during election season, the poor do not exist---they don't have political clout or power---even though how we treat the poor is really the best test of how we define ourselves as a community. Wallis says both candidates ignore the poor and therefore ignore the growing economic divide between rich and poor in this nation...a divide that can only lead to other great societal ills.