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medicaid and welfare families to use HMOs for health care instead of hospital emergency rooms. Ohio set up the program several years ago to save money, but it's effectiveness has been limited.

Farrakhan, and his recent visits to four militant Islamic countries linked to terrorism. The Nation of Islam leader did not attend the hearing, but many of his supporters did. They complained that they were not given the chance to speak in support of Farrakhan.

A jury convicted Lyle and Eric Menendez of first-degree murder today for the 1989 slayings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. The jury rejected the claim that the brothers killed their parents to end years of abuse. Virginia Biggar reports from Los Angeles on today's verdict.

Linda talks with James Stewart, whose new book "Blood Sport" chronicles the Whitewater affair. Stewart has been criticized by some for the "novelization" of this story. Assertions like "Jim McDougall thought" and "Mrs. Clinton presumed" left many wondering how based in fact his account really was. Stewart defends his work, and concludes that the entire Whitewater affair raises questions about how Mr. and Mrs. Clinton could have better dealt with the situation, without letting it cast a shadow on his administration and without hurting many eager public servants who came to Washington from Arkansas and were inevitably burned by Whitewater.

A NEW TREATMENT FOR EMPHYSEMA THAT IS GAINING ACCEPTANCE AMONG DOCTORS, IS HAVING A HARDER TIME GAINING ACCEPTANCE FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS.

N-P-R's Walter Ray Watson visits a house in Chevy Chase, aryland and shares in the reunion between the family who lives there now and he 88-year-old man whose boyhood diary was found under the floorboards during enovations.

Commentator Nancy Slonim Aronie talks about her transformation from bored suburbanite to late hippy.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the mindset of a suicide bomber. Today Israeli security forces demolished the home of one of the suicide bombers -- and despite their loss of property, the bomber's family and friends say he's a hero.

could mean for President Clinton and the preparations for that possibility at the White House.