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NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest in the investigation of the bombing last week in Oklahoma city. Authorities are pursuing leads across the country in an effort to find the suspect John Doe #2 and any others with potential links to the blast.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

THE STORY OF YITZHAK ZOHAR, WHOSE SHOES MAY BE COMING INTO VOGUE ALMOST 40 YEARS AFTER HE INVENTED THEM.

NPR's Corey Flintoff reports that President Clinton today said that his administration would look for a way to circumvent a Supreme Court ruling. Earlier this week, the high court struck down a federal law that prohibited guns within 1000 feet of a schoolyard, saying that the Congress does not have the power to create such a law under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. The President said that keeping schools safe should be a priority for the nation and charged the Attorney General with finding a way to continue enforcing the law.

Goats that were originally introduced to the woods of the Olympia ational Forest in Washington state for hunting are now devouring the area's reens and plants, including one species that is considered endangered. In past ears, park officials tried a variety of management methods, including snaring he beasts in nets and sterilization. All have failed to stem the goat opulation. Jennifer Schmidt of Seattle member station K-P-L-U reports that many elieve the only alternative is to shoot the goats in order to control their ising numbers. Defenders of wildlife are up in arms about the proposal.

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President Clinton, in his Saturday radio address, said he answer to the welfare problem is "responsibility through empowerment". State fficials in North Carolina have been considering the prospect of requiring food tamp recipients to work for their government assistance. Adam Hochberg reports hat current plans to revamp the system are being met with local opposition as ounties realize the effects new work assignments may have on elderly food stamp ecipients.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Carns, has withdrawn his nomination. The move came after the FBI discovered that Carns may have violated U.S. immigration law by helping someone he knew enter the United States from the Phillipines. Today, President Clinton named John Deutch, the number two man at the Defense Department, to replace Carns as the nominee to head the nation's spy agency.

Many controls imposed on the warring factions in Bosnia Hercegovina ave been slowly disintegrating as the deadline for the four-month cease-fire ears its May 1st expiration date. Areas once deemed safe and protected have ome under fire, and heavy shelling and firefighting have erupted between osnian government troops and Serbian forces throughout the region. Richard arruthers reports from Zagreb on the current turmoil in Bosnia as the United ations works to extend the deadline.