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FEBRUARY 18,

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on President Clinton's ampaign swing through New Hampshire this weekend.

Rwanda, about the United Nations tribunal, which has begun to indict Rwandans on charges of genocide. The U.N. is charging them with allegedly taking part in thousands of killings in Rwanda in 1994. The first two men to be charged are being held in Zambia but will be tranferred to Tanzania for trial later this year.

From New Hampshire, Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's national political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold, who says that in the last days before the New Hampshire primary, there are no confident candidates making their way through the snow. Late polls show voters are still shopping around, changing their preferences from day to day and that 20 percent of the voters have made no decision at all. We'll talk about why that is, about last night's debate and about what the candidates are saying today.

Danny talks with State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns and also Ruth Wedgwood, Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations about the importance of using the right names in political and diplomatic discusions. Wedgewood says that the use of a certain name amounts to a form of rhetorical warfare, and misnaming can be taken as an act of hostility. Burns says that communications between countries is particularly problematic for the United States because of its position of power in the world - other countries pay a lot of attention to what the U.S. says. They give several examples of controversial names including the use of the country-name "Macedonia" - the Greek government objects to a former Yugoslav republic calling itself by that name.

Liane Hansen speaks with cartoonist Scott Adams about his ugely popular comic strip, "Dilbert." Dilbert is an engineer who works in a ubicle for a nameless corporation. His dog, Dogbert, wants to take over the lanet. Adams, a former engineer himself, uses the strip to satirize the foibles f the corporate world.

from Rome on an emergency summit on the ituation in Bosnia. The summit was called because of concerns over problems ver the current peace plan.

President of the Committee for the Capital City, a group formed recently to work expressly for retrocession: returning most of the District of Columbia to Maryland.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Pat Hylkema, HILL-keh-muh) an 11th Grade teacher from Zanesville, Ohio. Her public radio tation is WUOB Athens.)

Susan Davis reports on a Commerce Department program to help preserve almon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest.