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NPR's Peter Overby talks with Linda about Charles Trie, the Little Rock businessman who raised some 600 thousand dollars in contributions for President Clinton's legal defense fund. Earlier this week, the chief trustee of that defense fund announced that the money was being returned. Trie is more than a long-time Clinton friend. He's a member of Democratic National Committee's "National Finance Board"...a fundraising structure in which members agree to raise or give 350 thousand dollars a year.

- Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Brzezinsky, the owner of a cafe in the dusty, economically depressed town of Roby, Texas, where a number of farmers pooled their resources and won the state lottery recently, to the tune of $46 million. Brzezinsky says the sudden infusion of wealth hasn't changed much in Roby. But he's offering a new millionaire's special on his menu.

For the first time since 1979, Iraqi oil started flowing to markets legally today. It's a result of the UN oil-for-food resolution that relaxes the stringent embargo against Saddam Hussein's nation. US officials express confidence that the UN-monitored oil sales will not erode the general sanctions program and the grand coalition that opposed Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm. But analysts are not so sure. They expect nations in the region will see the deal as a green light to resume trading and smuggling with Iraq. NPR's Ted Clark reports.

It was frigid again today in the Upper Midwest, with high temperatures in much North Dakota not even breaking zero degrees Fahrenheit. Sub-zero temperatures are formidable enough... but weather forecasters invariably follow the temperature with another, even scarier number -- the wind chill. One very cold day, we sent NPR's Joe Palca out to get the low down on wind chill.

Tornadoes tore through parts of Alabama and Tennessee on Friday night, and residents are still trying to put their lives back in order. Melanie Peeples of member station WUAL visited one area where a tornado touched down in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

on Speaker Newt Gingrich's bid for a second term. His re-election has been clouded by his admission that the ethics sub-committee received misleading documents about funding of a college course he taught.

Robert talks with Mark Johnson-Williams, one of the designers of the Tickle Me Elmo toy. Johnson-Williams tells how the FBI investigated him for 6 months as one of the UNABOMBER suspects.

Musician Townes Van Zandt died yesterday at his home in Smyrna, Tennessee, at the age of 52. Van Zandt was mostly known as a songwriter, and many of his songs were recorded by country and rock singers. Linda talks to country singer Nanci Griffith about his life and work. He was especially known for his lyrics.

a police cordon in the capital that had been preventing students from continuing their protest marches. The move is seen as a climb-down by Belgrade as the Orthodox church is planning a procession through the city.

Reporter Joanna Robertson talks to Robert about the volatile situation in Albania, following a weekend of violent demonstrations that the ruling party blames on the rival Socialists. The government today deployed troops in the capital and in other parts of the country to restore order. The violence began when Albanian investors suffered serious losses in the collapse of two national pyramid investment schemes. Opposition parties are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Aleksandr Meksi (MEHK-see).