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Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, NPR's Dan Charles reports that similar nuclear plants continue to operate throughout the former Soviet Union. More than a dozen plants with similar design flaws remain in operation, despite calls to shut them down. The biggest impediment is money to pay to replace the power the plants generate.

whether English should be made the official language of the United States. Tonight, we conclude our series with a commentary form Ruben Martinez, who is living in Mexico City, for a perspective from the other side of the border.

Commentator David Crystal says poets aren't the only ones to invent new ways of describing the world.

things are looking good for a second term for President Clinton. And -- if this election plays out like the others since World War Two, look for Clinton to win by an even larger margin than 1992.

SIMON/ BUZZARDS OF HINCKLEY, OHIO: SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NATURALIST BOB HINKLE ABOUT THE RETURN OF TURKEY BUZZARDS TO THIS TOWN, ALWAYS ON THE 15TH OF MARCH.

reform... but many questions remain before any legislation becomes law.

on a victory for the federal government in the continuing battle with western states over control of federal land.

NPR's Melissa Block takes note of a trend among politicians to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Irish-American politicians tend to quote him most frequently. There are complaints that taking Yeats' lines out of context distorts their meaning and that over-using Yeats can devalue the poet's work, reducing his lines to political cliches.

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

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on a speech Yassar Arafat delivered today in Gaza. The PLO leader accused Iran of ordering a wave of bombings on Israel. He also criticized the Jewish state for sealing the West Bank and Gaza strip.