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NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce personnel changes today in the wake of the controversy surrounding its investigation of ValuJet. The FAA asked ValuJet to suspend operations because of problems with the low-cost airline's maintenance procedures. FAA Administrator David Hinson said the case has highlighted problems with the agency as well.

Sylvia Poggioli reports on the Italian port city of Trieste (tree-EST), where the first East-West confrontation of the Cold War took place in 1945. Between 1945 and 1954, a total of one hundred twenty thousand U-S soldiers served a peacekeeping mission in Trieste similar to the current mission of U-N peacekeepers in the former Yoguslavia. Trieste recently welcomed back the American peacekeepers who served there after World War Two and thanked them for their service.

NPR's Joe Neel has an update on the AMA's decision to keep its policy of opposing physician-assisted suicide. In a debate that fizzled at the annual convention, one physician charged that the organization is simply avoiding the issue.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on an industrial-environmental deal that could only have been made in California. After a beach eroded to expose oil pipelines, Chevron replaced it with new sand. But that ruined the surfing, and Chevron had to fix it. The company employed a surf engineer who's building a unique breakwater to create new but gnarly waves. It's the first such project anyone's heard of, but probably not the last.

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Robert talks with Geoffrey Garin (GAIR-en), president of Garin-Hart-Yang Strategic Research, and Linda DiVall, president of American Viewpoint, about what voters think about the Whitewater investigation. Garin is a pollster for Democratic candidates and DiVall works for Republican candidates. DiVall believes that Whitewater has definitely had an effect on President Clinton's popularity, and that the nation's opinions about Hillary Clinton have negatively affected voters' perceptions of her husband.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the first indictment of Theodore Kaczynski as the person responsible for the Unabomber's mail-bombing attacks. A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned a ten-count indictment against Kaczynski, covering four separate bomb attacks that killed two people and injured two others.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Fred Barnes of The Weekly tandard magazine and David Corn of The Nation magazine about some of the topics n the news, including: Bob Woodward's new book "The Choice", the end of the enate Whitewater Committee, and the flap over alleged White House misuse of FBI iles.

Surgeons are increasingly finding ways to operate on fetuses while they are still in the womb. The operations can correct problems that in the past would have been fatal, or left the child with severe disabilities. But the operations raise many questions, including whether they are worth the cost and risk to the mother. Neil Tichner (TICK-nur) of member station WHYY in Philadelphia reports.