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where Asian-Americans are supporting Gary Locke, a Chinese-American, in a tight race against an African-American.

Linda talks to people who will be effected by changes in the welfare system: Diane Barcy, who lives in public housing in Dayton, Ohio; Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for welfare issues at the Heritage Foundation; Ariela Rodriguez, director of social services at the Little Havana Activites and Nutrition Centers of Dade County; Sharon Daly, Deputy Director of Catholic Charities USA; and Governor John Rowland of Connecticut.

With federal welfare reform looking more possible, states are already making plans for their block grants. More than 30 states have federal waivers that allow them to begin to create their own welfare programs. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that though many governors hope to tighten up eligibility restrictions and implement experimental programs using block grants, they expect to face opposition in their state legislatures.

President Clinton and Bob Dole both talked to the National Governors Association today, and both said they're in favor of giving governors more control over welfare programs. The president said he has helped get more flexibility for states. Dole said the president has not done enough. NPR's Mara Liasson looks at today's welfare debate.

1: Political advisor and gay activist, DAVID MIXNER. His new book, "Stranger Among Friends" (Bantam Books), is a memoir of the 1992 Clinton campaign and life inside the Clinton White House. MIXNER was pivotal in getting then-Governor Clinton the support of gay voters and was hopeful that the Democratic victory would expand civil rights to gays and lesbians. With Clinton's watered-down support of gays in the military and recent rejection of gay marriage, MIXNER has become disillusioned with the administration, and his book reflects this. MIXNER has worked on over 75 political campaigns and is currently the president of DBM Associates, a corporate strategic planning firm.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including former Colorado governor Richard Lamm, NAACP President weisi Mfume, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of Defense William Perry, the ate NBC journalist John Chancellor and music from the group "Smashing umpkins", whose keyboardist died this past week.

Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm announced today that he would seek the presidential nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party. A lifelong Democrat, Lamm says neither major political party is taking on the tough issues and that his campaign will force a serious national debate on issues including the federal defict and Medicare. But Lamm first has to get the party nomination. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

A young Cambodian who now lives in San Francisco has made a documentary about his experiences. His family escaped the Khmer Rouge to settle in the projects of San Francisco. During his senior year in high school, Bonus - who changed his name, as he says, to become Americanized and to avoid having his classmates make fun of his Cambodian name - was given a video camera to tape his life in America. He shot more than 70 hours of videotape...his family, friends, and sometimes himself talking candidly into the camera. His one-hour documentary (edited down with the help of San Francisco filmmaker Spencer Nakasako) won a Golden Gate award at last year's San Francisco International Film Festival and makes its television premiere tonight on the PBS series, "P.O.V." Heidi Chang reports.

Linda talks with Governor Roy Romer of Colorado about plans to create a "virtual university." Romer and the governors of Arizona, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming yesterday signed a plan to develop the home-based higher education program, which will utilize computers as the primary teaching tool. Romer says the program is designed mostly for people in jobs and that the first catalogue will be put together over the next six months.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including Former White House travel office director Billy Dale and en. Joseph Biden (D-Del), Sen Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), orth Carolina Governor James Hunt, ValuJet President Lewis Jordan and Chairman f the Olympic Organizing Committee, Billy Pane.