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Oregon Public Radio's Ley Garnett (LEE gar-NET) reports on the worst flooding to hit the western part of the state in 30 years. The Wilamette and Columbia Rivers are expected to crest in Portland at record levels tonight as citizens battle to shore up the riverbanks and save new developments.(6:30) -b- 8. BOSNIA. Noah talks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Sarajevo. They discuss the arrest of Bosnian Serb officers and response by Serbs to quit dealing with the Muslim-led Bosnian government and to halt contact with the NATO peace mission, Also, Richard Holbrooke, U-S Assistant Secretary of Sate, is being sent to Sarajevo Sunday to help the sides start talking again.

Democratic leaders in New York's state legislature say they'll move forward quickly with impeachment proceedings against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who faces allegations of criminal sexual harassment.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu is desperately trying to finish a novel and wonders if he needs a relief novelist to come in and tie up all the loose ends and loose characters he has created.

There's a book just out called The Here and Now. It's about a chance meeting that turns one man's world upside down. Our reviewer Alan Cheuse thinks author Robert Cohen has done a masterful job with this book, which he finds comic and suspenseful. (Scribners)

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the allied military campaign to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nearly five years after the end of the military conflict, United Nations sanctions against Iraq remain in place. NPR's Sunni Khalid visited Baghdad to see the effects of the sanctions on the people in the city and found that the economy has declined considerably in the past five years. Food prices have skyrocketed, the education system has declined, and the hospital system is short of supplies and medicines.

SANDY TOLAN REPORTS ON REACTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST TO THE REINTRODUCTION OF WOLVES TO THE REGION'S WILDERNESS. TO RESIDENTS, IT'S HARDLY AS SIMPLE AS RANCHERS-VERSUS-ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

A U.S. SOLDIER ASKED NPR TO DELIVER A TAPE DETAILING HIS ACTIVITIES IN BOSNIA TO HIS FAMILY STATIONED IN GERMANY---AND SAID WE COULD AIR SOME OF HIS THOUGHTS. SO WE DID.

SCOTT SIMON READS LISTENER LETTERS...AND CORRECTIONS

A federal appeals court ruled today that the sexual harassment suit filed by a former Arkansas state employee against President Clinton can proceed. The president's lawyers had asked the court not to require a sitting president to testify under oath. The 3-judge panel ruled that a president is not immune from civil suits for his unofficial acts. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE HAS A NEW LEADER...SELECTED YESTERDAY...AND JUST IN TIME FOR NATO'S BIGGEST, MOST DANGEROUS MISSION YET -- KEEPING THE PEACE IN BOSNIA. SCOTT TALKS WITH FORMER US AMB TO NATO WILLIAM H. TAFT 4TH