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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that some of America's allies, as well as many in the US business community, are not happy with legislation agreed to yesterday that will tighten sanctions against Cuba. After Cuba downed two American planes last weekend, President Clinton and Congress worked out their differences on the proposed law. Countries such as Canada, which does a lot of business in Cuba, are angered that the bill would permit lawsuits against foreign companies which invest in Cuba.

The Senate Whitewater Committee is wrapping up the week's hearing schedule with more witnesses from the fringes of the controversy. Republicans are keeping the panel going with second-tier witnesses, because the independent counsel has barred them from calling the higher-profile players during his investigation. The committee chairman, Sen. Alphonse D'Amato, hopes he can keep the panel in business long enough to get that possibly-explosive testimony. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

BALSAM OBIT: IN MEMORY OF CHARACTER ACTOR MARTIN BALSAM, WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE PLAY A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE THAT WON HIM HIS ONLY ACADEMY AWARD.

Linda speaks with Robin Roberts of ESPN and ABC about tonight's match- up between Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. Both had retired from the game and with Magic's return this week, both are back...and Robin says it's like a dream come true! She also talks about Girls and Women in Sports day...and says it's important for young girls to see strong, aggressive, and talented women athletes in action.

SCOTT TALKS WITH DR. AUSTIN CURTIS -- ONCE AN ASSISTANT TO DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Dr. Robert Kirschner, forensic nvestigator and director of the International Forensic program for the group hysicians for Human Rights. He has just returned from a mass grave site nvestigation in Rwanda, and expects to go to Bosnia sometime in the Spring

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the opening day of a meeting involving the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and mediators from the NATO-led implementation force (IFOR) in Bosnia. The meeting was called to try to iron out difficulties in implementing the Dayton peace accord. Among the problems: the Bosnian Serbs cut off contacts with IFOR after two army officers, suspected of war crimes, were picked up by the Bosnian government and later flown to The Hague for investigation before the war crimes tribunal.

CRUTCHES: Essayist Tim Brookes relates the life-lessons learned fter he was forced to hobble about on crutches for a few weeks.

involving a man whose grown daughter suddenly remembered how her father killed her childhood playmate 20 years ago has. His 1990 conviction was overturned in 1994, and now this case of repressed memories is being retried.