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medicaid and welfare families to use HMOs for health care instead of hospital emergency rooms. Ohio set up the program several years ago to save money, but it's effectiveness has been limited.

that injured an Alabama priest on Monday may have been intended for his neighbor, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent. Part of a note referring to an ATF conspiracy was found at the bomb sight.

this week, to ask the U.S. to include his country in NAFTA. President Clinton supports the idea, but many Democrats would rather not expand the free trade agreement.

where a Serb sniper was killed by NATO forces, two U.S. servicemen were wounded by a landmine, and the U.N. is launching an investigation of a suspected mass gravesite in northeastern Bosnia.

has called on the government to relax the restrictions it imposes on Cryptography, the science of scrambling electronic data. The panel said the government should promote such efforts to protect phone conversation and computer data.

of an additional $12 billion in defense spending beyond the figure requested in President Clinton's budget. The President has threatened to veto the legislation, in part because of its controversial social provisions.

are moving towards an agreement on funding for several government departments that do not have permanent funding through the end of the year. But the President is threatening to veto any bills that have environmental riders attached.

that contains nearly $66 Billion for social programs and education in the next fiscal year. That amounts to a freeze at current year levels. If it clears Congress, the measure faces a likely veto from President Clinton.

Bob Dole has placed on the issue of illegal immigration, while campaigning in California. Advocates for immigrants say it's possible Dole's strategy could backfire motivating naturalized citizens to vote Democratic.

between United Nations Ambassador Madeline Albright and President Reagan's former U.N. Ambassador, Jeanne Kirkpatrick. Both women are considered candidates to be the next U.S. Secretary of State.