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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL WAGNER, PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF THE DOCUMENTARY "OUT OF IRELAND - THE STORY OF IRISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA." IT WILL BE SHOWN ON PBS LATER THIS YEAR. THERE IS A COMPANION BOOK: "OUT OF IRELAND" BY KERBY MILLER AND PAUL WAGNER, PUBLISHED BY ELLIOTT & CLARK PUBLISHING, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

NPR'S EDWARD LIFSON VISITS COOK COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN CHICAGO TO EXAMINE THE DIFFICULTIES BEING FACED BY MOST URBAN HOSPITALS RESULTING FROM THE LACK OF TRANSLATORS TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DOCTOR AND PATIENT, WHICH ULTIMATELY RESULTS IN IMPAIRED TREAMENT. A NEW SURVEY BY THE NON-PROFIT NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOSPITAL INSTITUTE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHICH ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE, WAS RECENTLY RELEASED.

Marius Benson reports from Pretoria on the reaction of the Inkatha Freedom Party to this week's passage of South Africa's new constitution, and the withdrawal from the unity government of the mainly white National Party. The Zulu-led Inkatha--which has been locked for years in a bloody war with the ruling African National Congress--is now the largest minority party in the government. National Party leader F-W De Klerk suggested today that Inkatha might want to follow his lead and quit the government. But Inkatha officials say that in spite of their dislike of the new constitution and the A-N-C, for now they will stay on.

South African journalist JOHN MATISONN. MATISONN is white and grew up in the suburbs in Johannesburg. (His grandparents emigrated to South Africa at the turn of the century). To N-P-R listeners he's best known for his coverage from South Africa from 1986 to 1991. MATISONN also worked in Washington, D.C. He's now the head of elections for the South Africa Broadcasting Company, S-A-B-C, (which before the end of apartheid, broadcast purely government propoganda). He also co-founded the P-B-I, Public Broadcasting Initiative, to train and recruit South African journalists for the SABC to teach them about balance and fairness in the media.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews two new murder mysteries: "Original Sin," by P.D. James (Knopf) and "Cranks and Shadows" by K.C. Constantine (Mysterious Press).

2: Founder of National Empowerment Television (NET) and president of the Free Congress Foundation, PAUL WEYRICH. WEYRICH is a staunch conservative who wants to lead people out of political apathy and towards involvement and influence. The NET likes to refer to itself as C-SPAN with an attitude. And conservatives, especially Newt Gingrich who hosts his own show on the NET, are big advocates of the programming.

For many homeless people who contract HIV, it's likely their last days will be in a homeless shelter or a hospital surrounded by strangers. But, in Washington D.C. - there exists an alternative for a few men who are ready and willing to take it...Joseph's House. This community of formerly homeless men with AIDS learn to live together AND to die together here as a family - something that many of them haven't had for most of their lives. Daniel Zwerdling takes us for a visit to Joseph's House.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have seen the oldest alaxy ever discovered. It's called "8C 14-35," and astronomers estimate it to e 15-billion light years away, and 150 to 200-thousand light years wide. James raham and his colleagues at the University of California/Berkeley saw the alaxy through an infrared telescope at Mauna Kea (MAHN-uh KAY-uh), Hawaii. They eport their findings in the current isssue of the Astrophysical Journal.