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Forbes' campaign in Buffalo and other parts of upstate New York in preparation for today's primary election. Forbes projects optimism as he stops to shake hands and ask potential voters for their support. Polls show him trailing well behind Bob Dole.

Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega a new trial, claiming a star prosecution witness in the original trial was bribed.

Closing arguments are presented today in the assisted suicide trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who has been following the trial at the Oakland County courthouse in Pontiac, Michigan. LIVE 13. ABOUT KEVORKIAN -- Linda talks with Michael Betzold, a reporter on strike from the Detroit Free Press, about Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Betzold says Kevorkian wishes that society will one day accept assisted suicide for those who are emotionally ill as well as for the terminally sick. Betzold also talks about Kevorkian's desire to control death. Betzold has written about Kevorkian since 1991 and wrote a book about him called, "Appointment with Dr. Death."

NPR's Dan Charles reports that researchers in Denmark have shown that genetically engineered plants can pass their genes to related weeds. In a report in the journal Nature, researchers showed that a rapeseed plant passed the genes it received through genetic engineering to make the plant herbicide-resistant to a weed. The finding raises questions about the effects that genetically engineered plants could have on the enviroment.

Nearly three-thousand United Automobile Workers are on strike at the General Motors plant in Dayton, Ohio. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that some GM assembly plants are running out of brake parts and engine bearings because of the strike.

missile tests off the coast of Taiwan -- a move that has increased tensions in the region.

One of the things learned in any teaching hospital is an argot -- the private language used behind the scenes. Linda and Noah read entries from the glossary of medical slang prepared by the writers of the TV program "ER."

Republicans and the Clinton administration resumed skirmishing over the budget today. The temporary legislation that allows the federal government to operate is set to expire next week, raising the spectre of a third partial government shutdown. While the House and Senate took action today, NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports President Clinton says he'll veto the proposed new spending measures as they're currently written.

The transplantation of a baboon's bone marrow into an AIDS patient apparently has not succeeded in bolstering the man's devastated immune system. Researchers have been unable to find any evidence that the baboon's bone marrow took root and began functioning inside Jeffrey Getty, the patient received the highly controversial, highly experimental procedure in San Francisco. Critics had been concerned that the transplant, and others like it, could transmit new diseases from animals to humans. But Getty's doctors say they've found no evidence of that either. Getty's prognosis remains uncertain. David Wright reports from member station KQED.