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open for another six weeks, which passed the House last night and goes to the Senate today. House Republicans and Democrats and Clinton administration officials spent a long day working out a compromise.

NPR's Vicky Que examines the rationale for barring individuals infected with the AIDS virus from serving in the military. Like other service personnel with diabetes, cancer and other diseases, they are not deployed for combat or overseas duty. But they are healthy, can still perform their tasks and do not necessarily represent a risk to other soldiers.

White House Spokesman Michael McCurry has said Mrs. Clinton's appearance before the grand jury was "about as welcome as a trip to the dentist's office." We check with one member of the maligned profession for reaction.

has completely shutdown air traffic on the eastern seaboard.

Today's budget talks have been suspended. Robert Siegel speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson from the White House and Peter Kenyon from Capitol Hill about the why the negotiaitions broke down. Budget negotiators gathered again at the White House today, amid reports from both sides that the talks are on the verge of ending, either with a balanced budget agreement or a failure. Republicans had been hinting that, if they can't reach a settlement with President Clinton, they will bypass him and cut a deal with congressional Democrats to cut spending and taxes.

Open Tennis Tournament, which concluded over the weekend. Boris Becker won the Men's competition, and Monica Seles the Women's. It was Becker's first win in a Grand Slam event since 1991, and Seles' first since she was stabbed three years ago.

a writer for Popular Photography magazine, about a new photo system being developed jointly by Kodak, Canon, Minolta, Nikon, and Fuji. The Advanced Photo System, or APS, will provide a more foolproof means of taking good pictures. It includes a new type of film, packed in a light-proof cartridge, a smaller camera, and other high-tech features not available currently on even the most expensive 35-mm cameras. Photo labs will have to buy costly electronic processing equipment that can read information encoded on each roll of film.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Sarajevo reports on problems facing Sarajevo as it nears another important mile-post under the Bosnian peace plan. The Serb suburbs of the city are to be handed over to the Bosnian government this coming weekend under the supervision of an international civilian police force. However, the deployement of those police is slow and crime is on the rise.

IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, SHE DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK ABOUT CHILDREN AND AMERICA'S OBLIGATIONS TO ITS YOUNG, AS WELL AS THE VARIOUS CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING WHITEWATER, THE MADISON SAVINGS AND LOAN, AND THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE THAT HAVE SWIRLED AROUND HER. 14:15. "It Takes a Village," by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Shuster

Linda talks with Thomas Bartlett, editor-in-chief of Baylor University's campus newspaper, "The Lariat." Bartlett describes the excitement among students over the impending change in the traditional Baptist univeristy's 150-year injunction against dancing.