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Mike Lanchin reports from El Salvador that nearly four years after the end of that country's civil war, a new civilian police force includes people connected to former death squads.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the big blizzard has brought business throughout the region to a standstill. For northeastern retailers, the storm comes on top of several weeks of bad weather that has kept shoppers at home.

Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten who's in the Bosnian city of Mostar, where there's been recent violence between ethnic Croats and Muslims. This could be mean problems for the Croat-Muslim Federation. On New Year's Day a Muslim youth was killed by a Croat policeman...then on Saturday a Croat policeman being killed by shots fired from the Muslim sector. The sound of automatic weapons being fired on both sided continued throughout Satuday evening. Though uneasiness remains, the European Union administrator of the city said today he believes things are calming down.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the blizzard that paralayzed the Northeast also dumped unprecedented amounts of snow in the South. Thousands are without power in North Carolina Virginia, and Kentucky, and at least 14 people have died in storm related incidents. Many say they've never seen this much snow.

Former French Socialist President Francois (FRA

SALLY WATT REPORTS ON A COMMUNITY IN FLORIDA THAT WAS A RESORT HAVEN FOR BLACK AMERICANS DURING SEGREGATION. "AMERICAN BEACH," AS IT'S CALLED, IS NOW IN DISREPAIR... IT'S FUTURE UNCERTAIN.

a lot less than the Republicans are asking for. But it puts something on the table that not only Republicans ... but anxious Democrats can use to begin to make a deal.

Noah talks to Eoin O'Mahonny (Owen o-MAN-ee) manager of the Video Bar in Chapel Hill, NC, about one result of the big snowstorm: the dregs have been rented.

by the British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and the growing anxiety in Hong Kong about the territory's handover to Chinese control next June.

While the Blizzard of '96 may have paralyzed New York City, it didn't stop the U.N. Security Council from meeting to adopt a statement condemning human rights violations in Croatia. The only problem was the U.N. had been declared to be officially closed Monday. The result was that the council action received little coverage in the news media. This prompted speculation that key council members may not have wanted to publicize their moral outrage and perhaps irritate Croatian leader Franjo Tudjman whose country has become a lynchpin in western diplomatic efforts in the Balkans. NPR's Trevor Rowe reports.