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. Today, the Ford Motor Company will produce its two-hundred-and 50-millionth vehicle, AND this year marks the one hundredth birthday of automobile production in the U.S. We'll hear from Ralph NAder, New York City's traffic commissioner, a car loving poet, and from Tom and Ray, the hosts of Car Talk.

between the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago over Meigs Field, the tiny airport on Lake Michigan, which is very convenient for state officials traveling to and from the capital in Springfield. The State legislature has voted to take control of the airport site, something Mayor Richard Daley promises to fight in court. Chicago wants to make a public park on the land.

to withdraw a political television ad. It uses an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's, " >I Have a Dream" speech to argue against Proposition 2-0-9. Proposition 2-0-9 would abolish affirmative action programs in the state. Dr. King's family and estate say he supported affirmative action as a means of redressing past injustices.

Officials with the State Department for Public Health are investigating two recent hepatitis A related deaths in the Frankfort area. A statewide hepatitis…

have condemned the T.V. industry's voluntary self-ratings system... even before the plan is officially released. Judging by the leaked details, critics are calling the industry's plan inadequate. The new ratings system is meant to complement the V-chip, a programmable device used to block out undesired T.V. shows. The chip is scheduled to be installed in all new American sets by 1998.

new main public library, which is less than a year old. The 137-million-dollar structure initially attracted national attention as a model for the public library of the next century and has attracted nearly three times as many visitors as its predecessor. But, criticism abounds: about how to preserve a public library's traditional role, while incorporating new technology.

to associate themselves with senior leader Deng Xiaoping, as they hope to become his replacement. Deng is 92 years old, essentially out of politics, but he's still an important man in China. Recently, state television aired a 12-part, 10-hour documentary on his life. Later this year, the Chinese government will officially announce his successor.

announcement yesterday that a French manufacturer -- and French aviation authorities -- should bear the blame for a deadly airplane crash in Indiana in 1994. According to the NTSB, the ATR Corporation failed to warn pilots that one of its planes was vulnerable to ice formation on its wings. Just such a build-up of ice caused the crash of American Eagle flight 4184, killing 68 people.

about a person's access to medical records and an insurance company's obligation to release them. The case involves a Mississippi woman whose husband died from AIDS. She is suing Jackson National Life insurance company because it knew he had HIV three years before he died from AIDS but did not tell him.

France's fencing federation hopes the move will lure people addicted to their screens to exercise more. Lightsaber instructors will train people to take part in three-minute bouts.