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resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria in rural Maryland. The experts will negotiate protocols for the hoped-for peace agreement. Both sides say the talks have been positive so far.

to President Clinton's speech.

Mara Liasson reports on President Clinton's State of the Union address delivered last night to Congress, and the nation. The president declared an end to the era of big government and he called on the Republicans never to shut down the federal government again.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports on developments at the United Nations today, which hosted the largest-ever gathering of world leaders for the 50th anniversary session of the UN General Assembly. President Clinton made the opening address. Boris Yeltsin of Russia also spoke.

by the British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and the growing anxiety in Hong Kong about the territory's handover to Chinese control next June.

While the Blizzard of '96 may have paralyzed New York City, it didn't stop the U.N. Security Council from meeting to adopt a statement condemning human rights violations in Croatia. The only problem was the U.N. had been declared to be officially closed Monday. The result was that the council action received little coverage in the news media. This prompted speculation that key council members may not have wanted to publicize their moral outrage and perhaps irritate Croatian leader Franjo Tudjman whose country has become a lynchpin in western diplomatic efforts in the Balkans. NPR's Trevor Rowe reports.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Bill Clinton used his weekly radio address to begin making the case for deploying American troops in Bosnia. Clinton said a deployment is in the best interests of American security and in keeping with the country's national values. Clinton urged Americans to support his plan to send 20,000 U.S. soldiers as part of a 60,000-strong NATO force that will try to guarantee peace in a land torn by four years of bloodshed, atrocities and ethnic cleansing.

Regina Sansalone reports from Rome on the trial of Italy's former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, and his alleged links to the Mafia. Tommaso Buscetta, the mafia informer whose testimony has implicated more than 300 mafia figures, said in court today that he knew of Adreotti's links to the mob more than 10 years ago.

Noah Adams talks to author Mary Cable about the 1888 storm that closed down the East Coast and taught the nation about the vulnerability of telegraph wires and trains to severe weather. The storm led to the building of New York City subways and the concept of buried cables.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London that British Prime Minister John Major may soon be forced to call a general election, an election that most polls show would spell an end to the conservative party's rule. The conservative's majority in the House of Commons is dwindling rapidly, some conservatives are defecting, and the conservatives are so busy fighting among themselves that running the country is becoming increasingly difficult for Major.

abuses in Chinese orphanages that was broadcast last night in Britain despite Chinese protests.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo on efforts to stop Bosnian Serbs from fleeing their homes in the Sarajevo suburbs. Under the Dayton peace agreement, those Serb suburbs come under the control of the Muslim-led Bosnia government. There are reports that some Serbs are loading everything they can into their cars and burning their houses after leaving. The top civilian adminstrator for NATO today met with three Bosnian Serb leaders to explore ways to stop the exodus.

Danny speaks with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who recently returned from his first trip to Vietnam since the war ended some 20 years ago.

Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Susan Schmidt about the Senate Whitewater committee's decision yesterday to subpoena the White House for notes on a meeting at which the president's personal lawyers and aides discussed Whitewater. The White House has refused to release the notes, invoking Mister Clinton's attorney-client privilege. Schmidt says the matter is likely to be decided by the courts during the coming presidential election year.

Daniel talks with Dr. Jeanne McCauley, chief researcher of a new study on women and abuse. According to McCauley, her study reveals that 1 in 3 women report having experienced physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lives. And that often these women will show up in a doctor's office complaining of symptoms that have no apparent cause. The implications, McCauley says, are that women who are or have been in abusive situations sometimes exhibit other kinds of physical symptoms, such as stomach aches, head aches, dizziness or urinary tract problems that may have nothing directly to do with the abuse but are a result of it. We follow the McCauley interview with a story by Dr. Richard Weinberg, a gastroenterologist, who once had a patient who complained of stomach problems. While there was nothing physically wrong with her, Dr. Weinberg discovered that her stomach complaints were a product of stress due to a rape that had occurred several years before.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the continued finger pointing in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A national debate in Israel about who and what fostered the climate for such extremism. While some are pointing to the rhetoric of of nationalist rabbis others are looking to elite religious schools called Yeshivas. The lone gunman Yigal Amir attended one of these schools, schools that religious and military studies.

Danny speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold, who's in Iowa attending a debate among all the Republican presidential candidates.

to First Lady Hillary Clinton before the Senate Whitewater committee. Carolyn Huber talked about how she found documents dating back to Mrs. Clinton's partnership at a Little Rock law firm in the 1980's.

Daniel speaks with Tom Cochran of the US Conferance of Mayors about the state of soup kitchens across the country. Cochran says that the number of people asking for food is rising at the same time that budget cutbacks are limiting the amount of assistance that cities can afford to offer.

NPR's Joe Neel reports that two major studies released today are raising new questions about the value of beta carotene in preventing cancer. The government-sponsored studies failed to find any evidence that beta carotene reduces the risk for cancer. In fact, one of the studies suggests that beta carotene may increase the risk for cancer.

Cowboys are synomymous with rugged individualism. But those who ride for money at the rodeo are finding the cowboy way doesn't necessarily pay. The riders say the professional rodeo association that runs the rodeos isn't looking out for their interests. NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the riders' plans to form their own union.

Commentator Daniel Schorr observes that Hilary Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater and White House Travel Office controversies will likely obscure the merits of her new book on children and the family in American society.

Francois Mitterrand, Deidre Berger looks at the legacy of Franco-German cooperation that has moved Europe closer towards unity.

about the state's clean-up efforts. Pennsylvania received about 30 inches of snow over the weekend, and a state of emergency was declared on Monday.