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NPR's Peter Overby reports that House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt today responded to an ethics complaint filed against him. He denied that he filed false financial disclosure statements and spent campaign funds for his personal use. That ethics complaint was filed a week ago by Republican Jennifer Dunn of Washington.

of AFL/CIO leaders from around the country, where Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has been a big topic this week. They are trying to persuade rank-and-file members that Buchanan does not represent labor interests, despite his appeals to blue collar workers.

Robert and Linda read from another batch of listeners' comments.

Commentator John Rosenthal is a photographer and at a wedding he was working at he befriended a little girl in a white dress and patent leather shoes who wanted to pose for a picture. She also wants to know why he is taking so many pictures if he doesn't know anyone at the wedding.

David Culhane reports from Paris on a shakeup in the French defense industry. The government offered the biggest overhaul and the most comprehensive review of French military strategy since World War II. President Chirac announced in an address to the nation today that over the next 6 years military conscription will be replaced by a professional army.

Alan Cheuse reviews Criminals by Scottish writer Margot Livesey. (LIV-see). It's a dark comedy about moral ambiguity in the life of a English business man. (Publisher:Knopf)

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr talks about a proposal by a rivate, political task force which recommends the renewed use of journalists nd clergy as spies for the Central Intelligence Agency. Schorr says there's a ood reason NOT to.

of the first American to die in Bosnia, the implementation of the ceasefire and the de-mobilization of the various factions.

Michael Dodd reports from London on British government reaction o the current stalemate in talks to find a solution to the on-going crisis in orthern Ireland.

We're asking our listeners to phone our call-in line to tell us for Valentine's Day...what they remember of their first real kiss.