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Reporter Dan Collison spent a month following one team in the Continental Basketball Association. The C-B-A is the basketball league that's the equivalent of the minor leagues in baseball. Most N-B-A teams have at least one player or coach who came out of the C-B-A...and even though it's not as glamorous or well-paid as the N-B-A, the league is a place for players to work on their game, and keep their dreams of basketball stardom alive. (12:30) ((ST

An expert assigned to untangle the finances of Indian tribes, managed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, says the answer is to jettison the current system and start over. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that billions of dollars that Native American lands earn pass through the BIA and that money is supposed to be paid to individuals and tribes. The expert analyzing what went wrong says antiquated accounting practices and other forms of mismanagement require the establishment of a new agency to handle the money.

Three federal agencies have come up with a plan to try to stop the slaughter of bison near Yellowstone National Park. More than 700 of the park's herd of 3500 buffalo have been killed for wandering onto private land outside the park in search of food. The agencies say they will implement 24 hour patrols to keep the bison in the park and try to steer wayward animals onto national forest lands. NPR's Mark Roberts reports that environmental groups and the governor of Montana are not satisfied.

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he has serious and profound questions to pose to CIA nominee Anthony Lake. Lake's confirmation hearing has been delayed, long after some other second-term Clinton cabinet nominees have been confirmed and sworn in. Obstacles to Lake's nomination include controversy over his financial holdings, which could pose a conflict of interest due to his influence over security policy. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that 39 immigrant detainees have been released from a prison in York, Pennsylvania. They are the last detainees held in York after they were arrested following the grounding of the Golden Venture, an ship that ran aground off the New York coast in 1993. Federal authorities arrested the immigrants ,who said they were fleeing China's oppressive policies, as part of an effort to crack down on illegal immigration. The townspeople of York took up the cause of the detainees, and helped secure their release.

President Clinton, battered by allegations of improper political fund-raising, proposed major reform of campaign finance laws including banning the receipt of campaign money from non-citizens. The President said, "There are many immigrants who play an important role in our country but the essence of our democracy is that the citizens decide. Only citizens can vote. And only citizens' should be able to contribute." NPR's Mara Liasson reports from Santa Barbara, California.

A consumer interest group is saying a needle exchange experiment being planned in Alaska should be stopped. The experiment is designed to show whether offering clean needles to drug addicts will reduce the transmission of AIDS and other diseases...so some addicts will get the clean needles, and others won't. But critics charge that needle exchange programs have already been shown to work, and therefore *not* offering clean needles to some people in the study is unethical. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

NPR's David Welna reports on the new guerrilla uprising in Mexico, led by a group called the Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR. The rebels' well-coordinated attacks against military targets have made the government nervous. President Ernesto Zedillo dismisses the EPR as terrorists with little public support, but the guerrillas' ability to operate in various parts of the country suggests they do have some popular backing. The rebels seem to be flourishing in Mexico's poorest regions.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the growing humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire caused by increased fighting between the Zairean army and Zairean Tutsi rebels. In the area around Bukavu (boo-KAH-voo), food is running out for hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the violence. International pleas to end the fighting have gone unheeded, and there are growing fears that the clashes could lead to a wider regional war, involving the government armies and rebel forces of neighboring Rwanda and Burundi.

Heavy rains in the Pacific Northwest have finally tapered off, but several counties in Oregon are still covered by emergency declarations. At least seven deaths are being blamed on the storm which has brought torrential rains to Oregon and heavy snow to Washington State...and tens of thousands of people in the region are without power. Colin (KAH-lin) Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports on the damage, and efforts to restore power and clean up.