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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that both the Republican and Democatic Natinal Committees are meeting this weekend to strategize about the future of their parties.

Jacki talks to Ken Khachikian, who worked on President Reagan's State of the Union address in 1987. He says that President Clinton has an opportunity to take control of the direction of the country when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and that it could also be the beginning of his re-election campaign.

In the final installment of the NPR series 'The Subject is Sex,' Reporter Ginger Miles describes how her expectations of adulthood as a college student were very different from the way things turned out.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the presidential candidates opening season. The top Republican hopefuls appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows just before kicking off the 1996 run for the White House.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the state of civil security in Haiti. Many people feel safer now that there is a multinational security force maintaining the peace, although there is still some violent crime. Even though a Haitian police force is being trained, many Haitians are worried about what will happen when the multinationals leave.

Joyce Russell of member station WOI reports that preparations for the Iowa caucuses in anticipation of the 1996 presidential campaign are way ahead of schedule. With several Republican candidates having declared their candidacy...party leaders in Iowa are already chosing who they will back.

2: Australian film director, GILLIAN ARMSTRONG has made a new film, "Little Women," (Columbia Pictures) based on the popular nineteenth century novel. In 1978 Armstrong's career took off with the critically acclaimed film "My Brilliant Career." The movie also made her the first woman in Australia to direct a feature film. Armstrong has garnered many film awards since, including the Australian Film Institute Awards, U.S. National society of Film Critics Award and a best film at the Festival International de Creteil, France.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

BASEBALL: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOSEPH NOCERA (no-SER-ah), A BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. MR. NOCERA SAYS THAT THE SIX-MONTH OLD BASEBALL STRIKE IS NOT A TRADITIONAL LABOR DISPUTE.

Daniel visits an exhibit of household items from Elizabethan England at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Curator Leena Cowan Orlin says that it's relatively easy to imagine what life was like back then because a detailed inventory was kept of every item in the home.