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NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) visits with young teenage mothers at a special high school in North Carolina that is trying to prevent one mistake from leading to other problems -- dropping out, going on welfare, having more children. No one knows if this program will ulitmately be effective in helping decrease teen pregnancy, but since there are virtually no other social supports for these young women, administrators feel like it's worth a try.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Florence, Italy, where an international conference is reviewing the progress of peace in the former Yugoslavia. The fighting has stopped, the armies are separated and the one-year-long NATO mission is nearly half over. Two important issues are on the agenda in Florence: finding a solution to re-settling an estimated two-million people uprooted by the war, and deciding whether the elections scheduled for September should be held.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Florence, Italy, where more than 40 nations have concluded their review of the peace process in Bosnia. The final statement calls for the ouster of Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic (RAH-doh-vahn KARE-uh-ditch). It also sets September 14th as the date for national elections.

- NPR's John Nielsen reports on the latest escalation in the Whitewater investigation. A leaked report by the Republican majority of the Senate Whitewater Committee concludes that the first lady obstructed Senate investigations into White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster's death. It also suggests that White House aides gave inaccurate testimony during the Whitewater hearings in order to conceal her actions.

- Voters in the far east of Russia have already started going to the polls, but for most of the country voting begins on Sunday. NPR's Ann Cooper visits a village near Moscow where she talks with people there about how they view the presidential elections, who they're supporting and why.

Linda talks with NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson about President Clinton's three-day campaign trip out West and his visit tomorrow to a South Carolina church that recently burned down. They will talk about how the differences between when a President goes out to campaign and when a challenger campaigns, and how the public can tell the difference between what's political and what's presidential.

Robert talks with Peter Reddaway, a professor of political science at George Washington University, about his views on Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Reddaway says Yeltsin's behavior has become more czar-like, or authoritarian, over the course of his presidency. Reddaway says some of the Russian analysts he finds most credible predict that Yeltsin would not give up his office if his opponent, Gennady Zyuganov (gen-NAH-dee zyu-GAH-nov), were to win the election on Sunday.

Robert talks with Leon Aron (AH-rohn), a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, about his assessment of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Aron says that negatives about Yeltsin are exaggerated and that Russians associate two very positive things with Yeltsin; that lines for goods have disappeared, and that the ruble is now a valued, exchangeable currency.

Gene Johnson of member station WNYC reports on the arrests today of nineteen people suspected of leading the nation's strongest Mafia family. The charges include murder and illegal gambling, and reportedly stem from a two-year probe of the Genovese (jehn-uh-VEES) crime family.

Orange County, California finally emerged from bankruptcy protection yesterday. And they didn't have to raise any new taxes. To get out of the red, the county sold $880 million worth of bonds. The county's fiscal troubles started when a former treasurer lost almost one-point-seven million dollars in a high-risk investment strategy.

Commentator Elissa Ely has moved into a new neighborhood and is trying to make sure when she takes her dog for a walk people know she is respectful of the santity of their manicured lawns. She always carries three of four jumbo paper towels to show her intent to "keep the neighborhood clean". She has already run into some conflict, though.

Linda Wertheimer interviews women from the Republican business community in Florida about their reactions to the latest controversies surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton. The women also talk about other political issues, and the things that compel them to vote.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the first indictment of Theodore Kaczynski as the person responsible for the Unabomber's mail-bombing attacks. A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned a ten-count indictment against Kaczynski, covering four separate bomb attacks that killed two people and injured two others.

Sylvia Poggioli reports on the Italian port city of Trieste (tree-EST), where the first East-West confrontation of the Cold War took place in 1945. Between 1945 and 1954, a total of one hundred twenty thousand U-S soldiers served a peacekeeping mission in Trieste similar to the current mission of U-N peacekeepers in the former Yoguslavia. Trieste recently welcomed back the American peacekeepers who served there after World War Two and thanked them for their service.

Robert Siegel probes the political views of the Margalit (MARR-gah-leet) family, which generally supports politicians who hold the leftist point of view. For them, peace is the over-riding issue upon which their decision is made, and they approve of the effort which has been made to deal with the Palestinians.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Cairo on the conclusion of the Arab summit and Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to it. Arabs called on Isreal to continue the peace process and warned of consequences if they don't. Netanyahu accused the Arabs of dictating the terms for peace.

NPR's Deidre Berger reports from Berlin where Pope John Paul the Second celebrated mass yesterday in the stadium Adolf Hitler built for the Olympics of 1936. The Pope beatified two German priests for their resistance to the Third Reich. The Pope omitted some phrases of his prepared speech that claimed the "entire" Roman Catholic church had fought against the tyranny of the Nazis.

The Senate today began debate on a bill to reform the campaign finance system by limiting the amount congressional candidates can spend. But as NPR's Peter Overby reports, similar federal restrictions have had limited success in capping spending by presidential contenders.

Robert Siegel speaks with an Israeli who will vote for the Likud party in tomorrow's election. Ofer Mizrachi (OH-fair miz-RAH-hee), a Sephardic (seh-FAR-dik) Jew, lives with his family in a Tel Aviv suburb close to the border between Israel and the West Bank. He says he is afraid of the final deal that Shimon Peres will make with the Palestinians.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the outcome of the first round of Russian elections is not surprising, and that exit polls indicate that there is hope for democracy in Russia.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on an industrial-environmental deal that could only have been made in California. After a beach eroded to expose oil pipelines, Chevron replaced it with new sand. But that ruined the surfing, and Chevron had to fix it. The company employed a surf engineer who's building a unique breakwater to create new but gnarly waves. It's the first such project anyone's heard of, but probably not the last.

Rhino Records presents a 4 CD set... "Cowabunga: The Surf Box." (Rhino Records R2 72418) It's a retrospective of surf music from 1960 to 1995.

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NPR's Nina Teicholz repotrs from Rio de Janeiro that Brazil's effort to end hyper-inflation has created other problems: increasing business bankruptcies, rising unemployment, and a serious loss of consumer buying power. Economists lay much of the blame on the so-called Real (r

Robert talks with Geoffrey Garin (GAIR-en), president of Garin-Hart-Yang Strategic Research, and Linda DiVall, president of American Viewpoint, about what voters think about the Whitewater investigation. Garin is a pollster for Democratic candidates and DiVall works for Republican candidates. DiVall believes that Whitewater has definitely had an effect on President Clinton's popularity, and that the nation's opinions about Hillary Clinton have negatively affected voters' perceptions of her husband.