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NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that criticism is mounting against some countries participating in the NATO-led peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. Indonesia has sent some people to serve as policemen who do not speak English and another country has sent policemen who do not know how to drive.

Robert talks with journalist Tom Goltz about freedom-fighting Turks of Caucasian ancestry and the hostage crisis on the Black Sea. Chechens have taken 200 people hostage aboard a ferry boat and have threatened to blow the boat up once they reach Istanbul. Goltz spent the last four years in Turkey and the Caucasus and is writing a book about the wars in the post-Soviet Caucasus.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports a commission headed by former housing secretary Jack Kemp is recommending the current income tax system be replaced with a single rate system -- the so-called flat tax. The panel's recommendations come as the flat tax issue is a major topic of debate in the Republican presidential campaign.

Times are tough for hospitals in rural areas -- people are moving away, and spending for health care, which these hospitals rely on, is being reduced. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how a federal program is helping a small hospital in western Kansas survive.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have found evidence for the existence of two new planets outside our solar system. Both putative planets are about 35 light years from Earth, and are orbiting stars at a distance that would allow water to exist on them. One appears to be orbiting a sun in the constellation Virgo, while the other appears to be orbiting a sun in the Big Dipper.

Liane Hansen speaks with Owen Ullman from Business Week and avid Corn from the Nation magazine about the week's news, including the defense uthorization bill, the ramifications of the new telecommunications bill, and at Buchanan's win over Phil Gramm in the GOP caucus in Louisiana.

Commentator Reynolds Price explains why the greatest film success of all time is "Gone with the Wind." The hypnotic pace of its storytelling and the brilliance of its technical skills contributed to making it a masterpiece. But, most of all, Vivien Leigh's performance is unmatched in its richness and vitality.

Brennan about the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, California. The tournament determines which skaters will represent the U.S. in the world championships and the Winter Olympics.

will restructure their embattled company after losing money, market share, and half a dozen top executives over the past year.

Rene Preval who formally begins his duties today. Preval takes over from his predecessor, Jean Bertrand Aristide. The peaceful transfer of power was a first for the caribbean nation. But many Haitians wished Arisitide would remain in office.