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NPR'S Julie McCarthy reports that the danger of a new conflict looms between the US and Japan over the trade in semi-conductors. The current agreement expires at the end of this month and the countries have been unable to agree on whether to renew it.

BBC middle east correspondant Stepher Sackur (SACK-er) reports on a Jordanian family that was forced to leave Jordan and emigrate to Israel because of the name they chose for their baby.

Scott remembers former NBC news reporter/anchor John Chancellor, who died last night at the age of 68.

One of the nicest men in baseball, the Minnesota Twins All-Star outfielder Kirby Puckett is being forced to retire because of fading eyesight. Minnesota Public Radio's William Willcoxsin reports.

Fighting crime and guns has become a top priority for both President Bill Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole. This past week, both men were out on the campaign trail pushing their solutions to the problem. While some people may say the candidates are just giving lip service to the issue, Commentator Mickey Edwards applauds both men for addressing this important issue.

- George Offman in Chicago joins Daniel live to follow the horse race that, if it wins, will enable the horse Cigar to set the world record for most consecutive wins this century. That record was set by the horse Citation in 1950.

that some two thousand United Nations troops will be withdrawn from Haiti and how that would affect law enforcement efforts in that country. The fledgling local police force remains ill prepared to assume full responsibility, and the U.S. would be unlikely to allow that to happen.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on a memorial held today for the victims of TWA Flight 800. Relatives and friends were taken to a point of land closest to the crash site, where they threw flowers into the sea to remember their love ones.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports that it took 30 year's to make softball an Olympic sport, but yesterday, TEAM USA won the first ever game played in the Olympics, defeating Puerto Rico 10-0. Despite what the team feels is underexposure, TEAM USA has won fans wherever they've played, and the town of Columbus, where they've been training, has really taken them to their heart.

- Daniel visits squid expert Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Roper - a biologist - is organizing an expedition to the South Pacific, where he hopes to find a kind of massive squid that reportedly has been sighted by soldiers and fishermen. Roper will search for the squid in a glass bubble that will descend hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.