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by the British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind and the growing anxiety in Hong Kong about the territory's handover to Chinese control next June.

While the Blizzard of '96 may have paralyzed New York City, it didn't stop the U.N. Security Council from meeting to adopt a statement condemning human rights violations in Croatia. The only problem was the U.N. had been declared to be officially closed Monday. The result was that the council action received little coverage in the news media. This prompted speculation that key council members may not have wanted to publicize their moral outrage and perhaps irritate Croatian leader Franjo Tudjman whose country has become a lynchpin in western diplomatic efforts in the Balkans. NPR's Trevor Rowe reports.

President Clinton went to New Hampshire today for a two-day visit and some campaigning despite the fact he is unchallenged in the Democratic Primaries. He spoke this afternoon to parents, teachers and students at the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord about education and economic growth. We hear excerpts of that speech.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says the best Republican candidates are the ones who aren't running...in particular Jack Kemp. He's a great speaker, is a caring conservative and energetic...a good match-up against Clinton.

NOCERA. CONSUMERS ARE CAUTIOUS...BUT BUSINESS PROFITS ARE UP! IF NO ONE'S SPENDING, HOW CAN THAT BE? OUR FRIEND AND ECONOMIC ANALYST JOE NOCERA, COLUMNIST FOR FORTUNE MAGAZINE, EXPLAINS.

NPR'S ERIC WEINER REPORTS ON THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE ETHIOPIAN AND ISRAELI JEWS IN ISRAEL. AFTER BEING AIRLIFTED OUT OF ETHIOPIA IN 1984 AND 1991, THE ETHIOPIANS NOW FEEL THAT THEY ARE BEING TREATED LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS IN ISRAEL.

have calculated that the number of those infected with HIV appears to have stabilized. In New York State, the number of HIV infected women giving birth has actually dropped, but nationwide, the number of infections among young gay men appears to be going up.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on the status of a government decision about whether to reprocess plutonium. Arms control advocates oppose the reprocessing to limit the amount of material available for weapons.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impending end a federal program that was started in the late-1960s to provide subsidized housing for the poor in middle class white neighborhoods. The program grew out of a 1966 discrimination lawsuit against the Chicago Housing Authority and the federal Deparatment of Housing and Urban Development. Advocates are lobbying Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros to continue the subsidies.

Arab world and how that led to the current Middle East peace process.