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Linda talks with Max Castro, a senior researcher at the University of Miami North-South Center. Mr. Castro, a cuban exile himself, disagrees with the core of the Cuban community in Miami who support tough sanctions of Cuba. He says no sanctions have ever worked against other countries and Fidel Castro will not be overthrown by the implementation of policies such as the U-S is now proposing.

A Connecticut legislative committee yesterday heard testimony from one citizen who thinks the state should replace "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song. Certain references, say the citizen, are dated and sexist. We do a top-to-bottom analysis of the song to highlight its other possibly objectionable lyrics.

LeFebvre about his efforts to capture alive a cougar that's been roaming in a Wilmington, Delaware suburb. LeFebvre, who's had experience hunting cougars in the West, has been on this hunt seven days a week since late December 1995.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Disappearance: A Map," by Sheila Nickerson, a meditation on loss. (Doubleday).INT. 2: RAMBLIN''JACK ELLIOTT is a folksinger who has hopped freights, hitched cross-country, competed in rodeos, toured with Woody Guthrie, and influenced a young Bob Dylan. He''s been singing since the late 1940''s. He has his first studio album in over twenty-five years, "South Coast." (Red House Records, P.O. Box 4044, St. Paul, MN 55104 1-800-695-4687).REV. 2:Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews Volume 1 of a series called "Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era" featuring pianist Pauline Alpert (Pearl label).

Commentator Reuven Frank says that the media has some responsibility in making Pat Buchanan the popular fellow he is. The more the press condemns him, calls him names and puts labels on him, the more attractive they make him to a public that doesn't trust the press.

As the House prepares for a floor debate and vote Wednesday on a bill that would streamline procedures at federal regulatory agencies, David Baron looks at why the GOP, as well as business and industrial leaders, want health and environment regulations simplified. We examine one company's 18-year struggle with the EPA over a controversial additive for gasoline.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that a new biography of Stalin supports a long-suspected theory on his death, 43 years ago today.

In a straight party line vote the Senate Banking Committee today approved a measure to indefinitely extend the Whitewater committee. NPR'S Jon Greenberg reports Democrats argued that the further into this election year the committee hearings go, the greater the appearance of political motives. In vain, Democrats also appealed to Republicans' sense of history and fairness by pointing out that when Republicans asked for an early end date on the Iran/Contra investigation, Democrats agreed. Today, though, Republicans said too many questions remain and too many witnesses are unavailable until the conclusion of the McDougal-Tucker trial by the Independent Counsel.

Noah talks with Wayne Watkins from Capitol Records. He's the executive producer of a new six-CD set called "Ultra Lounge" -- recordings from the era of lounge music, the 1950s and early 1960s. Performers like Martin Denny, Bobby Darin, Julie London -- music which evokes smooth, smoky images of martinis, leopard skin, mambo, and the like. Watkins says lounge music has become popular among many young adults, who are dressing the part at nightclubs and listening to the music their parents might have played on their hi-fis.(6:00) (IN S