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Commentator Elissa Ely wonders how she will introduce her new baby to her older child, a golden retriever named Sandy who is not used to sharing Ely's affection. The baby has yet to arrive, but Sandy seems to know what is coming.

Commentator MILO MILES reviews two new reissues of singer Tracy Nelson: The Best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth and Mother Earth Presents Tracy nelson Country (both on Reprise Archives Label."Poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY. He died Sunday at the age of 73, from complications of lung disease. DICKEY was the author of the novel "Deliverance" and the screenplay for the movie of the same name. He said he wrote novels to pay the bills, but his first love was poetry. He wrote more than 20 collections of poetry. (REBROADCAST from 9/30/93)Rock historian ED WARD remembers veteran bluesman Z.Z. Hill. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . . a novelist whose first love was poetry, and a presidential candidate who offered tough solutions for the nation's economy. Interviews from the archives with poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY and former senator and presidential candidate PAUL TSONGAS. . . Both of them died earlier this week. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports on the work of South Africa's Truth Commission, which is trying to discover who was responsible for human rights abuses committed during apartheid. The commission has the power to grant amnesty to those who fully admit their crimes; the former white minority government insisted on this process as part of the price of a peaceful transition to democracy. While the Truth Commission's work is supposed to help heal the nation's wounds, testimony about gruesome acts of torture and murder is making it hard for many to forgive.

Women taking estrogen may be taking a risk if they also drink alcohol. For reasons yet to be determined, one or two drinks can increase the amount of estrogen circulating in the blood. And high levels of estrogen have been linked to an increase in breast cancer, though that link has never been conclusively proved. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

About a half-million elderly immigrants receive assistance under the Supplemental Security Income program. It's an income assistance program that also entitles them to Food Stamps and Medicaid, which pays for nursing home care for thousands. Laws passed by Congress in the last term would make immigrants ineligible for the assistance. NPR's Vicky Que looks at the possible impact of the changes on a Vietnamese couple in Philadelphia, who are too old to work and have no family in the U.S. to help them. (An adopted son is in trouble with the law.) It's not clear that either local and state public service agencies or private organizations can or will step in.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the political pendulum has swung back to a period where states' rights are highly valued, with the latest round of innovation coming from Maryland, New York, Virginia and Hawaii.

This week, Chicago's O'Hare airport joins New York's LaGuardia airport in a test of a new weather prediction system that's designed to keep ice off planes in the air and on the ground. Aviation experts say it will keep planes flying on time and improve safety too. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports.

is underway and independent producers are favoring comedies as their offerings for this year.

over a new anti- homeless law aimed at stopping people from living and sleeping in public areas. The law makes "urban camping" illegal and punishable by one year in jail, or a thousand dollar fine. It is part of a growing national trend that cities are trying as a way to clean up their urban centers.

about the latest opposition protests calling for the ouster of President Milosevic. The parliament of the new Yugoslavia was due to meet today, but the session was suspended amid growing signs of unease by the authorities.