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Burns about U-S diplomatic efforts to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon...

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that the White House releases a report today that says despite reports of anxiety about job losses, the pace of layoffs has not increased in recent years. The report also found that workers who lose their jobs are not having a harder time finding new ones.

Robert talks to the Washington Post's Jim Rupert, who is in Kiev, about the fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The plant is the site of the world's worst nuclear accident that occured 10 years ago. Officials fear the fires may carry radioactive particles into the air that could be spread beyond the 18-mile exclusion zone around the plant.

Buzz Conover of Florida Public Radio reports that the tobacco industry is trying to repeal law under which Florida is trying recover Medicaid costs paid out by state for smoking related illnesses. Tobacco industry has mounted expensive media campaign urging repeal, while Florida Governor Lawton Chiles is countering with his own, more modest, media campaign.

China scholar ORVILLE SCHELL, and Vice Chairman of Human Rights Watch, Asia. He will be talking about the crisis between China and Taiwan. SCHELL has written nine books on China, as well as contributing to magazines and television. His latest book is "Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Enterpreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future." (Simon & Schuster, 1994). SCHELL is also a board member of Human Rights in China.

2:The second half of MARTY MOSS-COANE'S interveiw with internationally renowned professor of behavioral pharmacology at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, NICHOLAS DODMAN. He is an expert in domestic animal behavior and psychology. In the new book "The Dog Who Loved Too Much" (Bantam) he illustrates his unique treatments and creative cures for pet disorders with stories from his own practice. DR. DODMAN'S therapeudic innovations include, changes in the dog's diet, exercise regime, and even the prescription of some "human" personality drugs.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the withdrawal today from the GOP presidential race of publisher Steve Forbes. Forbes made his announcement at a Washington D.C. hotel, flanked by his family. His campaign to restore economic growth to the country was considered a long-shot when he entered last year, but he quickly gained attention with a multi-million ad campaign and an optimistic message that attracted many voters. But he was unable to get enough votes to show that he could be a viable challenger to frontrunner Bob Dole.

Commentator Genevieve (Jenna-veeve) Ginsburg on aging and how all conversations seem to turn to physical ailments.

The VERY REV. JAMES PARKS MORTON, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine has announced his intentions to resign on Jan. 1, 1997. He will be leaving after 25 years of leadership at the world's largest Gothic cathedral to head a new organization, the Interfaith Center of New York. During his tenure as Dean of the nation's largest church he has created a congregation of 1,000, built 20,000 apartments for the poor, and established a living community of faith having much of the same energy and intellectual stimulation possessed by medieval cathedrals

Professor Emeritus of biblical studies at DePaul University in Chicago JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN (CROSS-in). A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969). CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus' sayings in the Gospels. CROSSAN wrote the book, "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography." CROSSAN's latest book is "Who Killed Jesus: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of The Death of Jesus "(Harper San Francisco 1995). His book, "Who is Jesus" will be coming out in the Fall. (REBROADCAST from 4