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President Clinton went to New Hampshire today for a two-day visit and some campaigning despite the fact he is unchallenged in the Democratic Primaries. He spoke this afternoon to parents, teachers and students at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord about education and economic growth. We hear excerpts of that speech.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says the best Republican candidates are the ones who aren't running...in particular Jack Kemp. He's a great speaker, is a caring conservative and energetic...a good match-up against Clinton.

NOCERA. CONSUMERS ARE CAUTIOUS...BUT BUSINESS PROFITS ARE UP! IF NO ONE'S SPENDING, HOW CAN THAT BE? OUR FRIEND AND ECONOMIC ANALYST JOE NOCERA, COLUMNIST FOR FORTUNE MAGAZINE, EXPLAINS.

NPR'S ERIC WEINER REPORTS ON THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE ETHIOPIAN AND ISRAELI JEWS IN ISRAEL. AFTER BEING AIRLIFTED OUT OF ETHIOPIA IN 1984 AND 1991, THE ETHIOPIANS NOW FEEL THAT THEY ARE BEING TREATED LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS IN ISRAEL.

have calculated that the number of those infected with HIV appears to have stabilized. In New York State, the number of HIV infected women giving birth has actually dropped, but nationwide, the number of infections among young gay men appears to be going up.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on the status of a government decision about whether to reprocess plutonium. Arms control advocates oppose the reprocessing to limit the amount of material available for weapons.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impending end a federal program that was started in the late-1960s to provide subsidized housing for the poor in middle class white neighborhoods. The program grew out of a 1966 discrimination lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority and the federal Deparatment of Housing and Urban Development. Advocates are lobbying Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to continue the subsidies.

Arab world and how that led to the current Middle East peace process.

Robert previews other pieces coming up this week, marking the Persian Gulf and its legacy.

Noah talks with with Chris Nuttall, the BBC correspondent in Turkey. Nuttall discusses the end of four-day hostage ordeal in which gunmen seized a Black Sea ferry with more than 200 people on board and threatened to blow up the boat unless Russian troops halted their attacks on Chechen rebels in southern Russia. The pro-Chechen gunmen surrendered to Turkish authorities near Istanbul after throwing their weapons into the sea.