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Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR reporter Tom Gjelten about he escalating situation in Bosnia. This week the fall of the UN-declared safe-area" of Srebrenica (shreb-eh-NEE-see-uh) triggered the largest exodus of ulsim refugees since the beginning of the three-year-old Bosnian war.

Daniel talks with Chris Bojalian, author of the book, "Water Witches" which details the story of a clash between the lawyer for a ski resort and a water dowser who opposes the resort's expansion. At the heart of the book is the clash between the rational and the spiritual..the lawyer and the water dowser. The book is published by the University Press of New England

Jackie Lyden speaks with Brad Knickerbocker, reporter or the Christian Science Monitor, about recent violent attacks on U.S. Park angers and other federal law enforcement officials. Knickerbocker says the ttacks stem from an attitude that federal government should back off from land se regulation, and may be related to anti-government sentiment in the aftermath f the Waco raid.

Following this past year's baseball strike, many fans have pted to put away their banners and caps as an act of defiance and disgust with he business of baseball. But the citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, are enjoying a evival of interest in the all-American sport. Joe Smith reports on the rise of ommunity support for the Cleveland Indians baseball team.

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NPR's Ann Garrels reports from Moscow that the Chechen rebels holding hostages in the Russian city of Budennovsk have begun releasing some of their captives. In return, the Russian government has ordered a ceasefire in its war in Chechnya.

Danny speaks with Michael Noll, Professor of Communications at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of California. They talk about the telecommunications bill passed by the Senate last week, and examine the impact it might, or might not have on the telephone consumer if it becomes law.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Democrats and Republicans are arguing over whether their respective budget balancing proposals will actually eliminate the deficit. This past week, the Congressional Budget Office found that the Clinton plan would fail to do so.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on Senate Republicans continuing attempts to re-write government regulations. Arnold looks at one particular regulation concerning toxic pollutants, a regulation that Republicans want to revamp.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON THE RESURGENCE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC OF BELARUS.