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The tax status of 501 C3's...also known as non-profit organizations... has come into question lately. Donations to groups enjoying this kind of status -- ranging from churches to educational institutions to charities -- can be written off on tax returns. But these groups have to steer clear of politics. Newt Gingrich's problems are raising questions again about these groups and their tax status. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

Commentator Max Robbins says last night's coverage of the State of the Union and the O.J. Simpson verdict was a television cosmic convergence... on one screen the President and J.C. Watts with their pleas to end the nation's racial divide, on the other side, a jury ruling against O.J. Simpson in a trial that has embodied the racial divide of the nation. Netowrks had to decide how to allocate their screen time and most, he says, did a good job, allowing viewers to compare what was said in Washington and the verdict in Santa Monica.

Under the new welfare reform legislation, some states are worried that recipients may flock toward those states that offer the best beneifits. But reporter Laura Womack of member station WAMU in Washington D.C. reports that in an unexpected twist, states like Virginia, which offer fewer benifits but have good job placement programs, may become the residences of choice for legions of welfare recipients looking for employment.

Scott speaks with Octavio Roca, music and dance critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. Twenty-five years ago the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington D-C opened. Mr. Roca was a student at the time, and remembers that event.

- Cory talks with Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and Internatiional Studies in Washington, D.C. Cordesman says unconventional weapons like poison gases, biological agents and nuclear devices are proliferating not only among America's enemies in the Middle east, but also among its allies.

Radio and television ads for hard liquor may soon become commonplace. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States says it is abandoning a sixty year-old voluntary ban on broadcast advertising. The liquor industry says the policy has long placed them at a competitive disadvantage in relation to the beer and wine industries which DO have such ads. While the major networks have their own policies against running liquor ads, the Seagram Company earlier this year began placing ads on some local television stations around the country. The ads have drawn criticism from the F-C-C as well as citizen groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

Dan Devany (deh-VAN-ee) of member station WETA in Washington, .C. speaks with Chinese bass baritone singer Hao Jiang Tian (how zhi-yang ee-yen) about his career as an opera singer. He is appearing at the Washington pera with Placido Domingo in Il Guarany (eel gwa-rah-NEE) by Antonio Carlos omes (go-mez).

This is, of course, the last weekend before school starts, and for many kids, their last few days at the swimming pool. Brooke visits a local pool in Washington D.C. to canvass groups of young people about how they feel about going back to school.

Linda talks to Officer Richard Troen (TROW-ehn), a member of the bomb technician squad of the Washington D.C. police. He says that pipe bombs are the most common type of bomb because they are simple and faily inexpensive to make.

A quick look at the leader of the right to die movement in Canada. Kevorkian assisted his suicide even while on trial in Michigan for the same thing. (2:00) 2A CUTAWAY 0:59 2B 13. SS OFFICER ON TRIAL -- NPR'S Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the trial of a former Nazi SS Captain charged with one of Italy's worst massacres during the second World War. Erich Priebke ((preeb-keh)) was extradited to Italy last November from Argentina. He stands accused for his part in killing of 335 men and boys near Rome in 1944.