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Neal talks with Hugo Gassioles who just completed a 3- and-a-half-year, 12,000 mile, horseback journey from his native Argentina to the U.S.

government's ineffectual handling of a disastrous oil spill...and the country's consequent political difficulties.

Lanny Davis, White House Special Counsel, talks to Linda about today's document release. They also discuss the White House strategy for addressing the number of questions regarding fund-raising practices, and the blurring of lines between White House business and DNC business.

Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros released a report today suggesting that in the past four years, the Clinton administration has moved thousands of homeless from shelters to independence. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that advocates for the homeless say the administration has taken the right approach. But they add that it's barely making a dent in the problem, and they worry that welfare reform and changes in the economy will swallow up any gains.

About a fifth of adults in the U-S are using the Internet and the World Wide Web, a number which is growing daily. Many of these people get some of their news from on-line newspapers that are spinoffs of regular daily papers. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times all have some presence on the Web, but the on-line editions do not have the circulation or the advertising revenue to match their print equivalents, and most do not make any profit at all. Robert talks to editors and advertising researchers about the possible financial futures of publishing on the Web.

about the year ahead for Hong Kong, which will revert to Chinese control in mid-1997. Hong Kong currently is a British 'crown colony.'

Noah talks to Aleksandr Vasovic, a foreign editor at B-92, an independent radio station in Belgrade. B92 is the only independent station in Belgrade...it is also the only media outlet reporting extensively on the protests against the government. Today, Slobodan Milosevic shut down both Radio B92 and closed down the transmitter of student station Radio Index.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone offers a progress report on television industry efforts to come up with a ratings system for its programming. The giant telecommunications law passed last year gave television a year to devise a plan of its own or face one imposed by the federal government. Although a final announcement on the ratings system isn't scheduled until later this month, details are filtering out. And some lawmakers and parents' advocates don't like what they're hearing.

about the accuracy of public opinion polls during the 1996 elections.

will hear arguments today about the constitutionality of Arizona's "English-only" law which mandates no other language be used in official state business.