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Recently-compiled Pentagon reports indicate that chemical weapons were detected as many as seven times in the first week of the Persian Gulf War. Previously, the Defense Department had acknowledged only two credible reports that chemical weapons were detected near the deployed US troops. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the center of controversy in today's report released by teh Senate Whitewater committee. The Republicans' report says she and White House aides showed a pattern of concealment and obstruction that continues to this day. Democrats say the investigation found no wrongdoing on her part. But never before in history has a congressional committee taken on a First Lady so directly.

Two reports are being issued today on Gulf War Syndrome. The president's commission on the disease issued its final report, which criticized the Pentagon's investigation of veterans' health complaints. There's also a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is expected to provide new insights into the syndrome. Robert discusses the new reports with NPR's Richard Harris and Martha Raddatz.

A Justice Department report earlier this week criticizing procedures at the FBI's crime lab could affect prosecutions in the World Trade Center bombing case. Two defendants in the 1993 bombing are awaiting trial and the lead defendant, who has already been convicted, is appealing. The inspector general's report concluded that an examiner from the lab gave ``inaccurate and incomplete testimony'' in the case. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports that a society's treatment of journalists often indicates the state of freedom in that society. Brooke talks to reporters who have risked their lives or their freedom to do their work. In New York tonight, four such reporters are being honored at the International Press Freedom Awards. Last week, several others were recognized by the International Women's Media Foundation.

Commentator Reuven Frank says that the television news reporters who do "stand -ups"...live reports done in front of a camera, usually by themselves...don't just seem to be standing around reporting anymore. They walk around and survey the scene...and their milling around, trying to set the scene, is sometimes more interesting than the news.

A report from scientists who advise the government concludes that the levels of the toxic chemical perchlorate currently found in drinking water do not pose a major threat to the nation's health. But an EPA report from 2002 -- and some environmental groups -- contradict that finding. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently issued a report accusing the Bush administration of distorting the science advisory process and ignoring advice in conflict with the White House agenda. The report reflects growing criticism from senior scientists over the way the administration makes decisions on science policy. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

TOWN REPORT: Essayist Tim Brookes examines a 1935 town report from he village of Ferrisburg, Vermont.

& 2: .Foreign Correspondent for NPR, TOM GJELTON. He's been reporting from Bosnia. GJELTON won the prestigious George Polk Award for his piece, "Massacre on the Mountaintop." The piece aired September 22, 1992 and described a massacre of 200 Bosnian Muslim men. The George Polk Award honors excellence in journalism. GJELTON also reported on the Gulf War and on the conflicts in Central America. (REBROADCAST from 4/6/93).Foreign correspondent for "Newsday," ROY GUTMAN. He and his photographer were the first western journalists to report on genocide in a Serb-run concentration camp. Shortly after the story was published the camp was closed and the Red Cross let in. Their reporting led to public outrage, and official condemnation by the United Nations. GUTTMAN won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. The dispatches have now been collected in a new book, "A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bosnia." (Macmillan Publishing). (REBROADCAST FROM 9/