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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the significance of today's postponement of municipal elections in Bosnia. It's one more indication that the peace process is struggling to survive, since it is getting minimal support from the ethnic factions in Bosnia. The result could be the continued presence of US troops in Bosnia, well past the deadline for their withdrawal.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on today's arraignment of Floyd Ray Looker, the so-called "Commanding General" of the Mountaineer Militia. Looker and six others are being held on charges that include an alleged plot to blow up the FBI's new National Fingerprint and Records lab near Clarksburg, West Virginia.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the FBI is offering a 500-thousand dollar reward for information on last summer's bombing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. In a news conference today, the agency was also scheduled to play tape of calls to 9-1-1.

It has been four months since Turkey's Islamist-led government came into office on a fiery rhetorical platform of Islamizing the country's traditionally secular government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that little has changed in Turkey's westward-leaning policies, raising questions whether the Islamicists have any hope of implementing their fundamentalist agenda.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that most states have filed their new welfare plans and are receiving federal block grants, but not much has changed in how welfare programs are being run. In Alabama, for example, there is not yet a detailed plan on how to move welfare recipients into jobs.

Germany is trying to figure out how to privatize all the state-owned property it inherited when the country absorbed communist East Germany. NPR's Edward Lifson reports from one small town north of Berlin, where the government's solution has been to put the entire village up for sale.

Andy Bowers reports from Moscow that former general Alexander Lebed has formed his own political party. The party's name is called the Russian Popular Republican Party...Lebed says he hopes the party will unite those Russians disappointed in both Communists and Democrats.

Andrew Wood of the BBC reports on statistics released today by the United Nations International Labor Organization which indicates that a billion adults worldwide were either unemployed or underemployed last year. The ILO also says that these numbers indicated that joblessness around the world will remain high for many years to come.

Canada was the country that invented and developed the -chip, the device that can block programming on your television. The chip lready is in the testing phase in that country. NPR's Ann Cooper reports on eaction among the test groups to the V-chips, and the difficulty in oordinating a rating system between Canada and the U.S.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that Syrian President Hafez Assad has taken a hardline stance against Israel's new government and many Syrians agree with him. But while Syrian officials say they do not see war as an option for resolving their differences with Israel, they are not sure Israel feels the same way.