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Gillian (JILL-ee-un) Sharpe reports from the Hague on the legal history that has been made by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. It has produced the first international charges dealing exclusively with rape as a war crime.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on Russian President Boris Yeltsin's victory in the run-off election yesterday. Yeltsin has called for reconciliation and hinted he might bring some of the men who back Communist Gennady Zyuganov into his government.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the Clinton Administration today announced plans to compensate more Vietnam veterans for health problems that may have been caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The list of illnesses for which compensation will be granted will now include prostate cancer, officials said.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that President Clinton yesterday endorsed a GOP adoption proposal calling for a $5000 tax credit for adoptive parents and making trans-racial adoptions easier. Trans-racial adoption has been extremely contraversial, and the Black Social Workers Assoc. has been bitterly opposed.

While Republicans and Democrats bickered today over the Senate Whitewater committee's treatment of the First Lady... President Clinton's former business partner, James McDougal, testified in his own defense at the Whitewater trial in Little Rock, Arkansas. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

A logger in Wisconsin uses a draft horse to pull pine trees out of the forest. Nick Van Der Puy reports that the horse can haul half as much as a logging truck, but is cheaper to maintain and causes less damage to the woods.

Fighting continues in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, between government and rebel forces. It's said to be the worse fighting in 3 years. Thousands are fleeing the capital. Meanwhile U.S. officials say they are preparing to evacuate more than 400 Americans caught in the factional fighting. Jennifer Ludden reports.

NPR's Tom Gjelten in Bosnia was at the killing fields this morning with United Nations Ambassador Madeleine Albright. Albright visited a farm believed to contain a mass grave. Gjelten reports that she said the bones and body she saw are clear evidence of a systematic slaughter.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the summit on terrorism, which was attended by leaders of 27 countries, many of them former enemies of Israel. President Clinton praised the gathering for coming up with concrete ideas for combatting terrorism, but others felt the summit was short on details.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Clinton administration plans to make a military satellite system more available for civilian uses. Currently, the Pentagon scrambles signals from its Global Positioning System for security reasons. But there's been a growing push to unscramble the signals for a variety of uses, including airplane navigation.