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NPR's Philip Davis reports on the arrival today of the bodies of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and others killed in a plane crash in Croatia earlier this week. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and families of the victims were at Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies.

Daniel speaks with Craig Buck about efforts to rebuild Bosnia's crippled economy. Buck leads a team from the US Agency for International Development. He says the top priorities for his team are creating jobs and rebuilding homes. He believes that economic recovery is essential for maintaining peace in the region.

Daniel talks with epidemiologist Bob Snow about how mosquito nets can help curtail the spread of disease in Africa. Dr.Snow - of Oxford University and the Kenya Medical Research Institute - ran the Kenyan portion of a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) study on the effectiveness of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

American Auction - From member station WNYC in New York Laura Sydell reports on a remarkable collection of African American artifacts and documents appearing in a New York auction house. Scholars have mixed feelings about the auction, although they are convinced of it's historic nature, they feel some might take advantage of the artifacts and hold on to them for higher resale at a later date.

In honor of National Poetry Month, United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass (rhymes with "grass") reads a poem from his book "Human Wishes" titled "Spring Rain".[STATIONS: Human Wishes is published by The Ecco Press]

We catch up on collegiate basketball news... Robert Siegel talks with two journalist from Sports Illustrated Larry Berke and Kelly Anderson, about the N-C-double-A Final Four Tournament, for both the Men's and Women's.

a new government took power. In Freetown, Sierra Leone. There was a handover of power by the military, to the new civilian president -- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah [ah-med TEE-jin KAH-bah], is the first democratically-elected leader in Sierra Leone since the late 1970's. The rebels agreed earlier this week to extend a two-month cease-fire. The BBC's West Africa correspondent David Bamford reports.

Daniel talks to Dave Beatty of the National Victim Center and Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Rhonda Saunders about stalking laws. In the past 25 months, many states have adopted statewide stalking laws, making it easier for law enforcement agencies to take action. However, Saunders says there is much more that state legislatures can do to toughen these laws across the country. According to the National Victim Center, currently 200,000 Americans are being stalked. For more information on victim centers in your area call the National Victims Center at 1-800-FYI-CALL.

The clocks in most parts of the US turn an hour forward on Sunday. Daniel talks to William Klepczynski (Klep CHIN ski), the Director of Time at the US Naval Observatory about the history of standard and daylight savings time in the US.

Daniel talks with Tom Salp, a former FBI agent who worked in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Salp explains how behavioral and psychological profiles are created and used in the apprehension of suspects.

Daniel talks with Dianna Ortiz, an American nun who says she was raped and tortured in Guatemala in 1989. Sister Dianna is in the eighth day of a vigil in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park, which is across the street from The White House. She says that the U.S. government has information about her torturers and is keeping a vigil to pressure the U.S. government to release its investigative files on her case, and others like it. The Clinton administration has said that once the Intelligence Oversight Board has reviewed her case, the appropriate information will be made available.

Daniel talks with Colin Spencer, author of "The Heretic's Feast, a History of Vegetarianism". Spencer says one of the first great vegetarians on record was Pythagoras, who about 25 hundred years ago, headed a sect which believed in part that human souls can reincarnate into animal forms and therefore animals shouldn't be eaten. Pythagoras was considered to be a very holy man at the time, but in later years European Christians viewed vegetarians as heretics and poked fun at them - a habit which Spencer says persists today.

Robert talks to Seymour Martin Lipset, author of "American Exceptionalism: A Double Edged Sword." (W.W. Norton & Company) Lipset says that many of the characteristics that Alexis de Tocqueville described as uniquely American still exist in our society today and continue to make the United States different from other countries. But Lipset notes these characteristics have a negative side, too.

of the contest for the 1996 Republican Presidential nomination. After conferring with his advisors yesterday, Forbes decided against continuing. He won the Arizona and Delaware primaries since then has not finished higher than third. Forbes spent at least $25 million of his own money on the campaign.

Today General Motors and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement that could end the seventeen-day strike against two parts plants. The strike has idled most of GM's North American plants and furloughed more than one hundred seventy five thousand workers. Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about what will happen after the union votes on the agreement. (3:30) 6. IMMIGRATION -- The House is due to vote today on a bill overhauling immigration laws. One of its provisions would allow states to deny public schooling to children of illegal immigrants. In addition, the House may follow the Senate's lead by splitting the measure into two parts, separating rules dealing with legal immigrants. The separation could kill attempts to sharply limit the number of legal immigrants. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. Updates are expected. Please be prepared to do new BBS if you use any of these details.

continuing to burn and loot city suburbs which they are leaving.

Finland may seem an unlikely place for internet activity, but in a recent ranking of countries based on internet computers, Finland was the clear winner. Danny talks with the managing director of Finland's largest internet provider to find out why.

Commentator Marianne Jennings sasys business people speak a different language...sometimes they don't use words, just acronyms, sometime they take nouns and turn them into verbs and sometimes they put all these things together and nobody knows exactly what they are saying.

presidential election. Perot was a third-party candidate in 1992; when he got 19-percent of the national vote.

between China and the United States over the issue of Taiwan. Tomorrow, China is scheduled to begin nine days of military exercises in the Straits between the mainland and Taiwan. Both Taiwan and the United States have protested, and the U.S. is said to be moving a second aircraft carrier group into the area as a cautionary measure.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports on the latest standoff between UN inspectors and Iraqui officials. For the second time in four days, Iraquis have blocked UN officials from checking Iraq's compliance with orders banning weapons of mass destruction.

have been trading partners with Cuba since the 1960s are displeased with a law signed by President Clinton yesterday that penalizes nations who do not conform to a trade embargo against Cuba.

of China's military exercises in the run-up to Taiwan's first democratic elections on the 23rd.