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As the Israeli Parliament the "Knessit" decides on the fate of the borders between Israel and the Palestinian - controlled Gaza strip, Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Glenn Frankl. Frankl, who has covered the region for many years, feels that whether the border is kept closed or left open the situation is very tenuous. Frankl's new book is called "Beyond the Promised Land - Jews and Arabs on a hard road to a new Israel.

FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE MEXICAN PESO DEVALUATION ON U.S. BUSINESSES. WHILE SALES OF SOME U.S. IMPORTS TO MEXICO HAVE PLUMMETED SOME BUSINESSES ARE REAPING ADVANTAGES IN REDUCED LABOR COSTS AND LOWER IMPORT PRICES FOR GOODS COMING FROM MEXICO.

Every year residents of San Juan Capistrano expect locks of swallows to return from their winter hiatus in Argentina. They are due o arrive today. The eaves of the local mission in this southern California town ave served as swallow nesting sites for decades. NPR's Mandelit (man-duh-LEET) elBarco reports that the mission has undergone renovations that damaged the ests, and citizens are worried that the swallows will not return.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

A certain co-dependence has long driven the relationship etween lobbyists and politicans in the Nation's capital. Much influence and nformation is channeled through these contacts. NPR's Peter Overby visited the efferson Group, a professional lobbying office in Washington D.C., and reports n the current state of this relationship, as well as the influence community's esponse to the first one-hundred days of the Republican-led Congress.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a proposal being considered by President Bill Clinton which would force government employees with access to classified information to submit their financial records for inspection. The measure is an effort to catch people such as Aldridge Ames who flaunted large sums of money while working for the CIA. Ames was a Russian spy who was being paid handsomely for the information he was passing on to Moscow.

Texans have long enjoyed great political clout in ongress -- in the past, it's been Democrats, but now powerful Republicans from he Lone Star State are strutting their stuff. Wade Goodwyn (GOOD-win) reports rom Austin on how Republican Congressmen from Texas will try to balance the ederal budget while trying to keep their constituents happy.

A recent spy flap between the United States and France has focused attention on the issue and ethics of industrial espionage -- spying on foreign firms to gain trade secrets and an advantage in the global marketplace. NPR's Dan Charles reports that the CIA is now warning U.S. companies against foreign spy operations while intelligence specialists are advising U.S. companies to develop espionage capabilities of their own.

As technology continues to advance, some ndividuals will have the means to gather information at an unprecedented rate. ess priveledged American citizens run the risk of being excluded from this omputer-driven future because of their lack of access to these modern tools of ommunication. NPR's Margot Adler reports on recent efforts by African-American rofessionals to bring high-tech equipment and information into their ommunities.