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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on a reversal by one of the country's leading abortion-rights supporters. Ron Fitzsimmons is apologizing for his strong support of late-term abortions during congressional debate last year. He's the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, and he says that the procedure is more common than he led people to believe. But abortion rights groups say the procedure is rare, and they're disputing his about-face. President Clinton vetoed a bill last year that would have banned late-term abortions.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Russia on the appointment of Anatoly Chubais ((chew-BY-iss)) to lead Russia's economic reforms. Chubais has been Russian President Yeltsin's Chief-of-Staff and a key player in the Kremlin while Yeltsin was recovering from heart disease, by-pass surgery and bout with pneumonia. Chubais first gained notice as the man who ran Russia's privatization program after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He also is given credit for engineering Yeltsin's succssful re-election last summer (2:15).

Attorney General Janet Reno faces a decision this week on whether to appoint a special counsel to investigate charges of campaign finance irregularities by Reno's boss, President Clinton. She also faces a new round of criticism if she decides no special investigator is needed. Critics say Reno is beholden to Mr Clinton for her job, so she can't be objective. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that attorneys general often have been cronies of the presidents who appointed them, and Congress passed the laws that led to the current appointment process.

- Old passions from the American civil war have been reignited by a battle between Georgia and New York over Georgia's state flag. James Argroves of Peach State Public Radio reports that New York, which flies the flags of other states as a courtesy, ordered the Georgia flag, with its confederate motif, to be lowered, saying it is a symbol of racial hatred and oppresion. Georgia has retaliated by lowering the New York flag, and Argroves says the psychological chasm between the two states isn't likely to be resolved soon.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the new African American History Museum in Detroit. The 38-million-dollar museum opens tomorrow (Saturday 4/12) and will document 500 years of black history and culture. In addition to a library, research facilities and a restaurant, the museum will feature a 70-foot replica of the hold of a slave ship, containing life-size plaster figures. As much an economic development project as a cultural endeavor, the museum is part of Detroit's on-going revitalization effort.

President Clinton unveiled details today of his domestic anti-drug strategy for the next fiscal year. He emphasizes a television ad campaign that he hopes the private sector will help pay for. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports the campaign will be aimed at persuading young people of the dangers of drugs. Mr. Clinton plans to spend a total of 350- million dollars of federal and donated private money on the ads. His overall domestic anti-drug strategy for fiscal year 1998 carries a price tag of 16- billion dollars.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the United States has notified executives of a foreign company that because their firm deals in property in Cuba confiscated from Americans, they and their families will not be allowed into the U-S. The move was taken under the so-called "Helms-Burton Law," which tries to keep foreign investment out of Cuba. The firm targeted today was not named, although the State Department has warned Canadian, Italian and Mexican companies that they might face sanctions. Helms-Burton also allows Americans to sue foreign firms which do business on confiscated property in Cuba.

NPR's David Baron reports that a massive flood of black water and house-sized icebergs burst out of a glacier in southeastern Iceland today, spilling across a 20-mile swath of coastline. The flood has destroyed a road, bridges, and utility lines, and it's disrupted fishing off the coast. Scientists had predicted the flood would occur, after a volcano erupted under Iceland's largest ice cap. But the torrent is bigger and is growing faster than anticipated.

Presidential challenger Bob Dole renewed his increasingly scathing attacks on President Clinton's ethics today, asking, "Where is the outrage in America?" Dole also repeated his charge that the news media have been favoring the President and not scrutinizing him closely enough. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Dole made appearances today in Houston and Dallas, campaigning for Texas's 32 electoral votes. Texas should have been safely in Dole's column before now, but his campaign still feels the need to shore up his support there.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that a major study has mostly reassuring news about birth control pills and breast cancer. The study confirms that women who currently use the pill have a slightly increased risk of breast cancer. But that risk is small and there is no apparent long-term risk. The millions of women who have been off the pill for at least 10 years are not at added risk for getting breast cancer, according to a study that scientists are calling "definitive."