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The Supreme Court heard arguments today on part of the new anti-terrorism law. A Georgia death row inmate is challenging the law's new limits on appeals based on alleged violations of prisoners' constitutional rights, so-called "habeas corpus" petitions. Supporters of the law say prisoners have been abusing the system to delay executions. Critics of the law say reducing the opportunity for appeal increases the risk of executing innocent people. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the justices.

a former director at the National Transportation Safety Board, about how the agency is handling the inquiry...

NPR's Lynn Neary remembers some of the 230 passengers and crew on TWA flight 800, which crashed Wednesday night off Long Island. They included a Houston woman who fought for victim's rights, an English professor from upstate New York who had just won an award for excellence in teaching and a televion producer who was heading to France for his last assignment before leaving ABC televisiion. He was traveling with his wife and daughter.

Africa's newest nation. Eritrea defeated the occupying Ethiopian forces in 1993 despite being heavily outnumbered. Now the new country surges with music and images that valorizes their struggle for independence.

Religious and charitable leaders held a news conference this morning... hours before the House vote on the G-O-P welfare reform bill. They voiced their opposition to the current package, calling it "immoral" and saying it will push "1-million more" children into poverty. The coalition of groups wants President Clinton to veto the measure if it makes it through Congress in current form. Many of the groups represented at today's news conference operate assistance and feeding programs that receive federal money.

in the Centennial Park bombing.

at the Reverend Martin Luther King's former church for the victims of the Atlanta bombing.

Linda talks to Officer Richard Troen (TROW-ehn), a member of the bomb technician squad of the Washington D.C. police. He says that pipe bombs are the most common type of bomb because they are simple and faily inexpensive to make.

the navy divers have working in on the ocean floor in the search for clues and wreckage...

of Atlanta's Centennial Park this morning after being closed three days following Saturday's bomb.