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From the United States Catholic Conference's Film and Broadcasting office, HENRY HERX. He's is office director. They provide reviews of current films, evaluating them for plot, entertainment value, and moral content. Their number is 1-800-311-4222. The office has five ratings, A-1 (for general audiences) to 0 (morally offensive). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE REV. SEG

NPR's Jon Greenberg brings listeners up to date on the nvestigation to determine the cause of Friday's train crash in suburban aryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Investigators are looking at the status f the signals at the time of the crash.

Laura Sydell of member station W-N-Y-C in New York City reports on those profiting and trying to profit from one of the largest snow storms of the century.

Frank Stasio reports that in a suburb of Washington, D.C., a group of Cambodian-American teachers is trying to keep alive the tradition of classical Cambodian dance. After the Cambodian genocide of the 1970's, the perpetuation of that art form was threatened, as most of Cambodia's artistic figures were murdered. Now, in the U.S., young Cambodian-Americans are reviving the dance.

An appreciation of The Ramones' characteristically short, fast and loud punk-rock classic.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Bill Clinton; Palestinian President Yassir rafat (speaking through an interpreter); a witness to the shootings in asmania, Australia; Australian Prime Minister John Howard; Washington D.C. ayor Marion Barry, Barry friend "Rock" Newman, and the "stretch" of the entucky Derby.

Jacki talks to Lynda MacCartney, the curator of the C.I.A. exhibit centre in the C.I.A. HQ in Langley Virginia about the new exhibit on the film director John Ford. Ford, who received a total of 6 oscars, worked for the Office for Strategic Services, the precursor to the present-day C.I.A. during World War two. During his work with the OSS Ford pioneered aerial camera techniques that saved many lives and pushed the medium of film in new directions..

High school student Christopher Ajamu Kai (ah-JAH-moo KYE) iggins explores the impact of last Fall's Million Man March on his home ommunity in Berkeley, California. It's been six months since hundreds of housands of African American men attended the "day of atonement" in Washington, .C.

8. Daniel talks with Jackie Pflug, who was shot 11 years ago by a terrorist who was part of a group that hiijacked an Egyptian airplane. Ms. Pflug was one of 5 people who were shot and one of three who survived. This week a Federal court jury here in Washington D.C. found the man guilty of that hiijacking. Ms. Pflug recalls for us the ordeal she went thru and how she's moved on with her life.

Former congressman Kweisi Mfume officially takes over as president of the NAACP (N-DOUBLE-A-C-P) today. He's being sworn-in in style, with President Clinton presiding, in the Great Hall of the Justice Department. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.