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Guest host Don Gonyea is joined by NPR's Brian Naylor to talk about this week's vote in the House of Representatives not to allow ground troops in Kosovo unless Congress approves such a measure. They also discuss whether any progress is being made on other matters outstanding before Congress.

Jacki talks to Ken Khachikian, who worked on President Reagan's State of the Union address in 1987. He says that President Clinton has an opportunity to take control of the direction of the country when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and that it could also be the beginning of his re-election campaign.

Linda talks to Wendy Taylor, editor of PC Computing Magazine. Taylor talks about the software which has been halting trade on "E-Trade," and the overload gridlock that plagued Victoria''s Secret''s much publicized on-line runway show.

Book critic JOHN LEONARD reviews "Drums Along the Congo," by Rory Nugent (Houghton Mifflin).

At 17, Miroslava Enciso Limon visited the Tijuana city dump for a school project — and came up with the idea for a recycling machine. Now the project is rounding into shape.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the upcoming week in politics. President Bush has several items on the agenda that he wants to Congress to get to before summer recess, including education reform and funding for faith-based programs.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the political turmoil in Indonesia, where the legislature removed President Abdurrahman Wahid from office today. In a final effort to prevent his impeachment, Wahid attempted to dissolve the legislature yesterday, but the army has refused to act on his orders.

Commentator Liam Callanan says that modern spies have forsaken their seedy urban haunts and that today's espionage has gone suburban. He says citizens who want to keep the world safe for democracy should keep an eye on their neighborhood parks.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports on fears that the government of Belarus may be involved in the deaths of opposition leaders. A number of members of the opposition have died mysteriously or disappeared in the last few years, and investigators on the cases say the government is trying to keep them from being solved.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's meetings with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope John Paul the Second in Italy today. The Pope condemned embryonic stem cell research, and warned against the dangers of globalization.