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After Saturday's South Carolina primary, the candidates will face voters in a number of New England states on Tuesday, as well as in Colorado and Georgia. One of the states where Republicans will be voting is Connecticut, where economic insecurity and taxes are major issues. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

will hear arguments in three cases involving federal sentencing guidelines. In today's case the issue is whether two Los Angeles police officers convicted in the Rodney King beating case were given enough jail time under federal rules.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that Pat Buchanan's first place finish in New Hampsire raises some intersting questions for the Republican Party. Republicans, who have built their economic policies around free markets and free trade, have seen a decidedly non-free trade candidate take the first primary of the 1996 elections.

STAMBERG/ RON: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALKS ABOUT THIS WEEK'S TRADE THAT TOOK THE NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE'S GREATEST PLAYER, WAYNE GRETZKY, FROM THE LOS ANGELES KINGS TO THE ST. LOUIS BLUES.

This week, the United States captured first place in the "Olympics of Bread Baking" Championships in Paris, France. Danny speaks to Tom McMahon, the Executive Director of the Bread Bakers Guild of America and a judge at the three-day event. Teams from eight countries participated in the event. McMahon says the American breads were so popular, the international judges took some home with them at the end of the competition.

Linda talks with W.D. Wetherall about his novel, "The Wisest Man in America." It tells the story of a New Hampshire farmer named Ferris who has the unusual ability to predict the winner of the state primary, and who has come to be regarded as a political sage.

to institute changes in the state's welfare system while not draining more money from the state's coffers to achieve that. One plan involves going to the private sector for help in getting some welfare recipients out of the dependency cycle.

Phillips in New Hampshire about the implications of yesterday's primary, and what it means for the rest of the race to the Republican convention in San Diego.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the results of the New Hampshire Primary seem to indicate that Lamar Alexander may be the strongest mainstream Republican candidate.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the efforts of anti-drug activist Herman Wrice to help small towns in the United States fight crack cocaine abuse through grassroots organizing and regularly confronting suspected drug dealers. Civil libertarians are concerned that this approach is tantamount to vigilanteism. If these people are known drug dealers, they argue, they should be arrested, not harrassed.