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to reduce drug smuggling in both countries. U.S. Drug Czar, retired General Barry McCaffrey says Mexican officials should be commended for their progress in curbing drug trafficking and has vowed that the U.S. will do everything possible to bolster anti-drug efforts.

in Dade County, Florida. Authorities blame the glut largely on immigration. Most of the 300 public schools in the system are operating at or above full capacity. Makeshift classrooms in trailers accommodate some of the overflow, but there still is a shortage of teachers and educational materials. Both faculty members and students are frustrated and say the quality of education is suffering.

in damage, this winter's floods out west have restarted the debate between environmentalists and the construction industry. To accommodate a population boom in California, people are building houses everywhere...in many places they shouldn't be...on fault lines, in flood plains and on hill sides.

in the ethics investigation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Republicans believe that it was Representative Jim McDermott, the House Ethics Committee's top Democrat, who leaked the recording of an incriminating phone call made by Gingrich. McDermott says he'll not participate in the committee's continuing investigation of Gingrich, calling it "a charade."

to avoid breaking the rules of campaign fund-raising. It's estimated that all senators and representatives combined raise a million dollars a day to finance their campaigns. They've become more wary of where the money comes from, but they still offer access to big donors.

his retirement from the U.S. Senate. After 20 years in the office, he's decided not to seek re-election. The announcement comes exactly 35 years after Glenn's most famous moment...on this day in 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

for practitioners of African-style hairbraiding. To comply with state law, braiders need to have a 'natural hair styling' cosmetology license,' which requires 900 hours of training. Some women, who do hair braiding for a living, have sued the state, saying the license requires things that have nothing to do with their profession.

from telling Medicaid patients about alternative and possibly cheaper treatments. President Clinton announced a ban on the so-called gag rules yesterday. A measure to ban the gag rules for most other patients died in Congress last year, but was reintroduced this month in the House.

which President Clinton sends to Congress today. The Fiscal Year 1998 blueprint includes a mixture of tax cuts in some areas and tax increases in others, along with spending reductions, all designed to bring the budget into balance over the next five years.

that foreign aid donors worry about the legislative gridlock in Haiti. Lawmakers there have yet to pass a federal budget and they refuse to embrace the downsizing and privatization of some state enterprises. The U.S. has pushed the plan for selling off state industries but many Haitians fear losing even more jobs...two-thirds of the workforce is already unemployed.