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The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports from Los Angeles on Congresswoman Andrea Seastrand's return home to California to visit with her constituents. Seastrand is one of the 73 freshman Republicans in Congress. And like many of her colleagues, Seastrand is now worried how the budget stalemate might impact her re-election campaign this fall.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the testimony the Senate Whitewater Committee heard today from former White House communication director Mark Gearan. Gearan was asked about notes he took during a White House meeting just over two years ago regarding the appointment of a special prosecutor -- a move the First Lady opposed but one that the President called for.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a recent trend among the big automakers of maintaining large reserves of cash, rather like rainy day funds, to serve as a financial cushion during the next recession. In the past the companies have had little in the way of cash reserves and have had to cut back on new projects when sales were down.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on an old idea that is coming back to the streets of Lowell, Massachusetts. Community policing is the current way of referring to the cop on the beat...policeman who walks his precinct instead of driving through...as a way to get to know residents and help prevent crime. The one-year old experiment so far has yielded positive results.

For centuries people have been cutting single pages out of are manuscripts for profit. The trade of the panel paintings and miniatures on hese pages is causing alarm among the curators and researchers who maintain and se libraries and archives. David D'Arcy reports from New York that this age-old ct of vandalism is still ruining priceless works of art.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with NPR reporter Mike Shuster in agreb about the Croatian military offensive that has successfully reclaimed the ebel Serb's Krajina (krah-YEEN-a) region within only three days. Croatian resident Franjo Tudjman ordered the massive attack on the Serb stronghold of nin (knihn), which has been held by Serb rebels since 1991.

IN ITALY, THREE MEN WITH AIDS HAVE BEEN ROBBING BANKS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AN ITALIAN LAW THAT PROHIBITS PEOPLE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF A TERMINAL ILLNESS FROM BEING IMPRISONED. HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH PETER SHADBOLT, A REPORTER FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL IN ROME.

PATRICK COX OF MEMBER STATION WBUR IN BOSTON REPORTS THAT OFFICIALS AT THE CEDAR JUNCTION PRISON IN WALPOLE, MASSASHUSETTS, ARE PREPARING TO LIFT A LOCKDOWN THAT'S BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS. PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED THAT LIFTING THE LOCKDOWN MAY LEAD TO VIOLENCE, AND THEY ARE QUESTIONING WHETHER THE GET-TOUGH POLICY IN THAT STATE'S PRISONS WAS SUCH A GOOD IDEA.

ALTHOUGH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS RUNNING FAIRLY SMOOTHLY NOW, ITS ROCKY BEGINNING HAS TAKEN ITS TOLL. MARK ROBERTS REPORTS FROM DENVER THAT A SMALL AIRPORT IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS ATTEMPTING TO GIVE THE DENVER AIRPORT A RUN FOR ITS COMPETITIVE MONEY AND THAT EVEN DENVER RESIDENTS ARE FINDING THE SMALL AIRPORT MORE APPEALING THAN THEIR OWN.