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Robert remarks on some "non-news" from Eastern Europe which is becoming less and less Eastern. In Poland, a new anti-smoking law took effect last month.

President Clinton today renewed most favored nation status for China. Congress must vote on the renewal, and many members have been critical of China's human rights record and its lack of action on the infringement of American copyrights. Last week, the President threatened to institute massive tariffs on some Chinese products. NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports.

Scott has some thoughts on the day which would have been Marilyn Monroe's 70th birthday.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on the work of a handful of researchers who believe in something called Cold Fusion. It's a complicated idea...involving the fusion of atoms and the subsequent release of enormous amounts of energy...all accomplished in a controlled and friendly environment. And it's controversial -- SO controversial that most scientists don't even think cold fusion is possible. Despite the sceptics, the search for cold fusion goes on.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the mood in Jerusalem in the aftermath f hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu's election as prime minister.

CIA & DIPLOMATS: NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments on he uncozy relationship between the CIA and the diplomatic corps.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on Israeli youth and how they might vote in next week's election. Whereas young people used to be more hawkish than their elders, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in November has pushed them toward the Labor Party because, they say, it is the party more concerned with peace.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that Iraq's acceptance of a U.N. plan that would allow Iraqi oil producers to export 2 billion dollars' worth of oil likely won't bring an immediate drop in the world's oil prices. But experts say U.S. consumers can expect to see lower prices at the gasoline pump in coming months as a result of the plan.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from Sarajevo on a change in the leadership among the Bosnian Serbs. Over the weekend, the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, [RAH-doh-van KARE-uh-jitch] decided to give up dealing with the international community. He appointed Biljana Plavsic [bee-YAH-nah PLAHV-sitch] to act for him. International observers say the change will not make it easier to deal with the Bosnian Serbs. Plavsic is known as a hard-liner who will probably continue Karadzic's policies.

45 people were charged today with distributing child pornography. NPR's Chitra Ragavan says the Postal Service made the arrests after a two-year 36-state undercover operation.