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big trade in the National Hockey League. Wayne Gretzky, the league's all-time leading scorer, was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the St. Louis Blues. Gretzky had hoped to be traded to a Stanley Cup contender.

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have formed a support group to share their tales of what it's like to live in an overseemingly white region. Blacks make up only one percent of New Hampshire's population. and that is over half the state's minority population.

Sarajevo suburb that is being handed over later this month to the Muslim-Croat Federation.

Danny examines the state of the Republican presidential nomination campaign, one day after Bob Dole won the South Carolina primary, with our panel of editorial page editors: Jane Eisner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union-Tribune, and Billy Winn of the Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer.

Daniel speaks with playwright Emily Mann who's play 'Greensboro: A Requiem' tells the story of a massacre in 1979, where members of the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed 5 demonstrators who were protesting Klan activities. The play is based on interviews of survivors of the attack, as well as of Klansmen who took part in it. The play is being staged at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey.

Noah speaks with Ziad Abu Amr(ze-YADAH-boo AH-mer), a professor at Bir Zeit (beer-ZATE) University, about the recent bombing attacks in Israel. Abu Amr says such multiple attacks, in quick succession, are not the style of Hamas' military wing and that they are problably the work of a splinter group.

Jennifer Ludden (LUH-den) reports from the West African nation of Benin (beh-NIN), on that country's process of democratization. Once among Africa's most repressive countries, Benin has become a model of reform. Tomorrow (Sunday) Benin holds its second multi-party election.

Danny speaks with Dr. David Grimaldi, Curator and Chairman of the Entomology Department at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Grimaldi led an expedition to a site in New Jersey where they discovered precious ancient flowers embalmed in amber from the Cretaceous period, nearly 90 million years ago. Grimaldi says these are undoubtedly the most completely preserved flowers from the time of the dinasours.