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between President Clinton and Palestine Leader Yasser Arafat.

that today the Supreme Court will hear a motion to reverse a decision concerning the separation of church and state. A 1985 ruling barred public school teachers from giving remedial math and reading lessons in religious schools. Since then, schools across the country have used loopholes to work around the decision... and five current Supreme Court justices have cast doubt on the ruling in recent opinions.

Besides being the day tax returns are due, today is the deadline for Congress to pass a budget plan for next year. As usual, the deadline won't be met. Negotiators for the House, Senate and White House have been meeting for weeks now and are far from an agreement on how to balance the budget by the year 2002. Differences between the parties on tax cuts and cuts in Medicare and Medicaid spending are broad. However, some progress has been made on potential cuts in several smaller programs such as student loans. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a major new campaign by the United Farmworkers Union. The union seemed to lose its way after the death of charismatic founder Cesar Chavez, but now it's back with a big effort to organize California's strawberry workers.

Linda talks with Vice President Al Gore and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Chief James Lee Witt about what they've seen as they tour the flood-ravaged Ohio River Valley, and what FEMA is doing to help the region recover. Waters levels continued to rise today in what's been the worst flooding along the Ohio River in three decades. Thousands have been forced from their homes and businesses, and President Clinton has declared dozens of counties in Ohio and Kentucky disaster areas.

The BBC's Simon Ingram reports on a meeting between Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and Egypt's President Mubarak. After the meeting, Netanyahu said that a controversial plan to build apartments Jews in Arab East Jerusalem was proposed to ease a housing shortage. President Mubarek was not convinced.

Commentator Bob Deans says women's basketball has done a lot for girls, who now know that you don't have to wear a bikini to get into Sports Illustrated. He should know as he nears the end of a satisfying year coaching his young daughter's basketball team.

Linda talks about new efforts by President Clinton to clamp down on gun violence.

The city of Grand Forks, North Dakota has literally been inundated in the flooding that has paralyzed the northern plains. Ray talks with evacuee Lynn Wooten and Red Cross worker Tim Manatt from a rescue center at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Wooten says her boyfriend didn't want to leave their apartment until the very last minute. Manatt says several of the kids at the resuce center built a little bowling alley to ease the boredom.

on the the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh. Today the prosecution begins presenting its evidence and calling witnesses. They are expected to open with sound and video of the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building.