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Daniel talks with Dianna Ortiz, an American nun who says she was raped and tortured in Guatemala in 1989. Sister Dianna is in the eighth day of a vigil in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park, which is across the street from The White House. She says that the U.S. government has information about her torturers and is keeping a vigil to pressure the U.S. government to release its investigative files on her case, and others like it. The Clinton administration has said that once the Intelligence Oversight Board has reviewed her case, the appropriate information will be made available.

Daniel talks with Timothy Flannery, a mamologist at the Sydney Museum, about the growing popularity of Easter Bilbies in Australia. They are rapidly taking the place of the traditional Easter Bunny because the bunny population has created huge agricultural problems there. Flannery describes the Bilbie as a small animal will silky blueish fur and a friendly demeanor.

Daniel talks with Colin Spencer, author of "The Heretic's Feast, a History of Vegetarianism". Spencer says one of the first great vegetarians on record was Pythagoras, who about 25 hundred years ago, headed a sect which believed in part that human souls can reincarnate into animal forms and therefore animals shouldn't be eaten. Pythagoras was considered to be a very holy man at the time, but in later years European Christians viewed vegetarians as heretics and poked fun at them - a habit which Spencer says persists today.

Commentator Merrill Matthews has a humorous suggested list of warning labels to put on different federal agencies and government offices. Some are hazardous to your health, some are hazardous to your pocketbook and some to the well being of your children.

Robert talks to Seymour Martin Lipset, author of "American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword." (W.W. Norton & Company) Lipset says that many of the characteristics that Alexis de Tocqueville described as uniquely American still exist in our society today and continue to make the United States different from other countries. But Lipset notes these characteristics have a negative side, too.

after the Palestinian authorities announced the arrests of several senior members of Hamas' military wing. >

Commentator Marianne Jennings sasys business people speak a different language...sometimes they don't use words, just acronyms, sometime they take nouns and turn them into verbs and sometimes they put all these things together and nobody knows exactly what they are saying.

In the wake of Cuba's downing of two civilian aircraft, President Clinton today signed controversial legislation that will tighten the U.S. embargo of Cuba and permit Americans to file claims against Cuba in American courts. We hear excerpts from Mr. Clinton's remarks.

continuing to burn and loot city suburbs which they are leaving.