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There's another delay in the vote count in Bosnia. International organizers say it will be Wednesday before they can announce results in the most closely watched race...the race for the three-man national presidency. In Sarajevo, NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that Western diplomats believe the Bosnian Serbs will have to cooperate with the Muslim-Croat Federation, despite the separatist campaign prior to the election. The diplomats believe the Serbs have no other option but to cooperate.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that the California attorney general today charged former Los Angeles Police detective Mark Fuhrman with perjury. During the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson, Fuhrman testified that he had not used a racial slur against African-Americans during the last ten years, but four witnesses contradicted him. Fuhrman appeared in court today and pleaded not guilty.

NPR's Melissa Block reports from New York City that Ramzi Yousef (RAHM-zee YOO-seff) and his two co-defendants have been found guilty in their trial, which accused them of a scheme to blow up American jets in retaliation against the United States for its policies in the Middle East. Yousef still faces charges that he masterminded the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

David Culhane reaports that an Arabic daily newspaper is reporting a massacre in Algeria that may have left at least 63 people dead. The London-based "Al-Hayat" says Muslim militants armed with rifles, daggers and axes attacked two buses over the weekend on a highway southeast of the capital Algiers. The attackers reportedly rounded up all passengers from one town and killed them.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the Bosnian Serbs appear to be trying to undermine and destroy the Dayton Peace Accord. Muslim political parties have lodged complaints against them with the international organization running the election. They say the Bosnians Serbs are trying very hard to create the Republika Srpska as a complete, separate entity...working against the elections this Saturday that are designed to create a unified government.

Retired U.S. military officers are training and equipping a joint Muslim and Croat army in Bosnia to defend their territory against a possible attack by the Bosnian Serbs. But NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that U.S. officials are concerned that the program may not prepare the Bosnian Federation for the most likely dangers it is expected to face: infighting between the Croat and Muslim sides, and militancy among the hard-line Muslim nationalists.

Billionaire Ross Perot is making his second bid for the presidency...this time as the Reform Party candidate...but he has not campaigned extensively, even with only nine weeks left until the election. He has $29 million in public funding for his campaign, but so far has spent little except on half-hour infomercials that profile the candidate. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Robert talks with Kenneth Crutchlow about his friend Peter Bird. Bird was the first to row a boat solo across the Pacific Ocean, and during another recent attempt, Bird went missing, and is now presumed dead. A German sea captain has reported finding the remains of the boat about 900 miles off the coast of Japan. It appears there was a freak accident -- a log floating in the sea crashed into Bird's boat and destroyed it.

Ann Elise Henzl (ANN-uh-LEESE HEN-zul) of member station WUWM reports that Wisconsin is set to initiate the country's first statewide program that requires all welfare recipients to perform some work in exchange for benefits. Folks who can't find work will receive grants in exchange for community service work. Some critics of the "W-2" program say this provision will lock people into low-wage jobs, with little chance for advancement to self-sufficiency.

Gillian (JILL-ee-un) Sharpe reports on testimony before the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. A survivor of the killing fields of Bosnia says he saw Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic ((rat-koh MLA-ditch)) watching the killings. The testimony came as the Tribunal considers issuing international arrest warrants for Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ((RAH-doh-vahn KARE-ud-jitch)).