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that President Clinton will testify by videotape as a defense witness in the Whitewater trial. The tape will be played in court, but the White House is concerned about what could happen to the tape after the non-televised trial. There are precedents in this case... Former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both testified in court by videotape, and both tapes were sealed by the ruling judge.

in which the United Nations finds itself. U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali is warning that the organization faces financial collapse if member nations fail to pay annual dues. Currently, the U.N. says that more than a thousand jobs may be cut this year in an effort to reduce costs.

the growing use of cellular telephones: fraudulently charging calls to other people's phone numbers; and illegally eavesdropping on other people's cellular conversations. The former involves a practice known as, 'cloning,' in which a person's cell phone number is replicated; the latter involves the use of a scanner, which enables someone to listen in on calls.

Mayor Marion Barry's decision to go on retreat for reasons of health and spiritual well-being. Mayor Barry left one retreat near Annapolis on Wednesday for another in St. Louis. There has been widespread speculation that he may have relapsed into drugs and alcohol, speculation which has not been confirmed.

at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa. No one has claimed responsibility for the two bombs that exploded recently at a women's health clinic in Atlanta. This week, authorities released a tape recording in which a telephone caller claims responsibility for two bomb attacks at a Planned Parenthood clinic outside Tulsa last September.

that it has discriminated against black farmers. Following a recent investigation, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman says that the Farm Service Agency used discriminatory lending practices. The Agency will temporarily halt all farm foreclosures, until it determines what role discrimination may have played in each farmer's financial problems.

new restrictions on campaign contributions, announced yesterday. The DNC no longer will take more than 100,000 dollars a year from anyone. And it no longer will accept donations from two sources which the law allows to contribute: namely, the subsidiaries of foreign corporations; and, foreign citizens who are permanent residents of the United States.

by Digital Equipment Corporation in December. The jury awarded six-million dollars to plaintiffs who said their use of Digital keyboards left them disabled. The court found that Digital should have warned users about the potential of injury. The appeal process is being watched closely by the computer industry.

in the Gingrich ethic violations case. The Justice Department has received a tape of House Speaker Gingrich and other Republican leaders talking about counter-attacks on the House Ethics Committee. A couple of democratic activists in Florida taped the conversation, and delivered it to Representative Jim McDermott, a member of the Ethics Committee.

to promote Acting CIA Director George Tenet to the full rank of director, following Anthony Lake's withdrawal from consideration. Unlike Lake, Tenet is expected to win easy Senate confirmation. He's been Deputy CIA Director since 1995 and prior to that served as Staff Director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is conducting the confirmation hearings.