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fire destroyed the complex. After the blaze, owner Aaron Feuerstein became a working-class hero when he vowed to preserve jobs. He has fallen short of his vow to avoid layoffs, but the company is continuing to re-build.

, legalizing the possession of marijuana. But because it is still illegal to sell or distribute the drug, people who want to distribute it for medical purposes don't know how to proceed.

to preview the college basketball season.

Californians will vote on an initiative that will do away with affirmative action. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on how Initiative 209 has become a national campaign issue.

- Daniel talks with NPR's White House Correspondent Mara Liasson about the response of the Clinton campaign to questions about DNC fund-raising tactics. President Clinton says he and the Democratic National Committee have played by the rules in their fund-raising efforts.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Minority Leader Tom Daschle about the 105th Congress, which convenes next month.

President Clinton has nominated for his national security team in his second term and the issues they will confront.

It's been five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union but it will take many more years to undue much of the ecological damage done during Soviet rule. Case in point: one of the greatest environmental disasters in the world today is the drying up of the Aral Sea in central Asia. In the 1950s, when the Soviets decided to increase their cotton crop, two rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were used to irrigate the cotton fields of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan; the flow of water to the Aral Sea was reduced by ninety percent with disasterous results. NPR's Mike Shuster visits an Uzbek town that used to one of the Aral Sea's biggest ports--now the sea is thirty miles away and the town of Mujnak (Moy-NAHK) is plagued by both massive unemployment and serious health problems brought on by the Aral's demise.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will get under way Tuesday as forecast, but the talks will begin with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meeting separaely with President Clinton before any face-to-face meeting between the two Middle East leaders can take place. Even as the meetings in Washington were being prepared, however, US administration officials were lowering expectations that even the previously-agreed-to Oslo Accords could be reactivated.

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the fight, last weekend, between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and what it seems to have done to revive the sport of boxing.