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The Pentagon today admitted that the Army was warned as early as 1991 that soldiers might have been exposed to chemical weapons in the Persian Gulf when troops blew up a weapons depot there. The information came from the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon had been saying that it had learned of the possibile exposure only last year. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

Twenty years ago, Natan Sharansky was jailed for being a refusnik (re-FYOOZ-nik) and his part in working for the rights of Russian Jews to emigrate. The Soviet Union called him a spy and threw him in prison. Today the CBC's Mike Hornbrook reports on Sharansky's return to the prison. This time, the prison visit was on Sharansky's itinerary as a foreign dignitary...he is now the Israeli Minister of Trade and Industry.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London on the troubles of British Prime Minister John Major. With a little more than three months before a general election, his authority within the Conservative party is disappearing. The most recent setback is over his get-tough-on-crime legislation. Last night, the House of Lords rejected a key portion of that legislation which concerned wiretapping.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on this week's fundraising controversies involving Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff, Maggie Williams. What's clear is how raising money pushes limits. It's a craft that works in loopholes, gray areas and blurry lines, making it difficult to determine if the letter of the law was broken.

Gillian Sharpe reports from The Hague, where the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia is hearing testimony. For the first time a survivor of a camp for Bosnian Serbs told the court today of atrocities against Serbs. The testimony is part of the trial of four men--three Muslims and a Croat--who are accused of committing war crimes. (3:15) CUTAWAY 1A 0:59 1B

From Lima, Jon Miller reports on Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori's trip to Canada to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto. They'll discuss strategy for ending the embarrassing month-and-a-half-long hostage siege in the residence of the Japanese ambassador to Peru. Hashimoto is seeking Fujimori's guarantee that the end of the siege will result from negotiations, not military action.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service announced this morning that it has already begun implementing a new immigration law. Immigration rights groups are pursuing a challenge to a key part of this law after losing a bid to stop the measure from taking effect today. At issue is a piece of last year's massive immigration law that expedites the deportation of travelers carrying fraudulent or invalid documents. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on Judge Richard Matsch's decision to keep much of the jury selection process behind closed doors in the trial of Timothy McVeigh. The public can hear jurors answer preliminary questions by lawyers and the judge, but arguments over whether particular jurors should be included or excluded are taking place out of public view, in the judge's chambers.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London on the most recent campaign by the Irish Republican Army against the government of the United Kingdom. This campaign uses the threat of a bomb to upset life in Britain. Over the past two weeks there have been small bomb explosions on railroad lines, threats against railroads and highways. Most recently a phoned-in threat stopped the running of the historic Grand National steeplechase horse race.

The BBC's Jane Standley reports from Goma, Zaire, on how that city has changed since Zairean rebels took it over last fall. Goma once was home to hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees. Today it is the de facto capital of rebel-held Zaire. People in the town generally welcome the rebels' presence. They are seen as less oppressive and corrupt than the Zairean government and its army.