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THE EIGHT-DAY SUMMIT MEETING HELD BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN ENDED AT THE SMALL CRIMEAN RESORT TOWN OF YALTA 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. NPR'S ANDY BOWERS PREPARED THIS REPORT.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Author Peter Stark really loves winter. He has written lovingly bout the joys of ice and snow. Many of the pieces he's written for Smithsonian nd Outside magazines now appear in a new book: "Driving to Greenland - Arctic ravel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter." Reporter illiam Marcus accompanied Stark on a crunchy ice-climbing adventure, and rought back the details.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

The Animal Welfare movement is affecting the way the fur rapping industry does its business. Paula Dobbyn (DAH-bin) of member station -T-O-O in Juneau reports on the Alaska Fish and Game Department's reaction to he newly approved ban on steel, leg-hold animal traps. In an effort to save the rapping industry in Alaska, department officials are holding seminars to ducate fur trappers in alternative snare methods, emphasizing the importance of ur trapping to the local economy.

Liane Hansen speaks with Palestinian journalist Abdul Salam assarueh (mass-AHR-way) about the recent escalation of violence in the region. assarueh says much of the Palestinians' frustration comes from lack of inancial support from western nations. Massarueh is based in Washington and rites for newspapers throughout the Middle East.

Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead reports that it's been nearly a year after the U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam has been lifted. One of the more unusual new joint ventures has been the importation of Holstein cows.

For many homeless people who contract HIV, it's likely their last days will be in a homeless shelter or a hospital surrounded by strangers. But, in Washington D.C. - there exists an alternative for a few men who are ready and willing to take it...Joseph's House. This community of formerly homeless men with AIDS learn to live together AND to die together here as a family - something that many of them haven't had for most of their lives. Daniel Zwerdling takes us for a visit to Joseph's House.

Many Americans are still complaining about the state of education in America. NPR's Don Gonyea reports on a "charter school" in Michigan... one of many such special schools across the country that are providing an alternative to a standard public school education.