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Africa's newest nation. Eritrea defeated the occupying Ethiopian forces in 1993 despite being heavily outnumbered. Now the new country surges with music and images that valorizes their struggle for independence.

Religious and charitable leaders held a news conference this morning... hours before the House vote on the G-O-P welfare reform bill. They voiced their opposition to the current package, calling it "immoral" and saying it will push "1-million more" children into poverty. The coalition of groups wants President Clinton to veto the measure if it makes it through Congress in current form. Many of the groups represented at today's news conference operate assistance and feeding programs that receive federal money.

in the Centennial Park bombing.

at the Reverend Martin Luther King's former church for the victims of the Atlanta bombing.

Linda talks to Officer Richard Troen (TROW-ehn), a member of the bomb technician squad of the Washington D.C. police. He says that pipe bombs are the most common type of bomb because they are simple and faily inexpensive to make.

the navy divers have working in on the ocean floor in the search for clues and wreckage...

of Atlanta's Centennial Park this morning after being closed three days following Saturday's bomb.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says the guilt of finding good child care can get intolerable...she thinks of all the high level execs that have left their jobs to spend more time with their families---they aren't satisfied with having anyone else but themselves take care of their kids.

He directed nearly 80 films, including "Wings," which won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture; "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda; and "The Public Enemy," which launched Jimmy Cagney's career. He also co-wrote and directed the original, 1937 version of "A Star is Born." Yet no-one outside of film circles remembers William Wellman's name. That's why his son has produced a documentary that's screening theatrically (at AFI on 7/31) and will air on TNT in August (8/13). Ken Bader, of member station WBUR reports.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica where one year ago today, the Bosnian Serb army over-ran the United Nations safe-area. During the next three days, thousands of Muslim men and boys disappeared. Now, Srebrenica is flooded with Serbs. They are refugees from Sarajevo and other areas that have been turned over to the Bosnian-Croat Federation.