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NPR'S ELIZABETH ARNOLD REPORTS FROM YUMA, ARIZONA WHERE THE SURPRISE WINNER OF THIS WEEK'S REPUBLICAN PRIMARY IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, PAT BUCHANAN, IS CAMPAIGNING.

Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that in two separate attacks in Israel today Palestinian suicide bombers killed at least 25 people, including 2 americans, and injured more than 80. It was the bloodiest day since Israel and the P-L-O signed their first peace agreement three years ago. The militant Hamas Movement claimed responsibility for both attacks.

NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS ON A CHECKPOINT IN BOSNIA WHERE MUSLIM, SERB, AND CROAT SOLDIERS ALL GREW UP TOGETHER.

TREVOR ROWE REPORTS THAT THE U.N. IS INCHING CLOSER TO CREATING A CONTINGENCY FORCE FOR POSSIBLE INTERVENTION IN BURUNDI, WHERE ETHNIC VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO BE DEADLY.

OUR LATEST INSTALLMENT OF JULIUS KNIPL: REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER. THIS WEEK --- THE SIREN QUERY BRIGADE.

Tonight in Iowa results of the long-awaited GOP caucus will be announced. Robert talks with Hugh Weinbrenner, professor of public administration at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa about what the Iowa cuacus is all about. Professor Weinbrenner explains what happens at a caucus and why they exist.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Pastor Michael Grady in El Paso, Texas, and Dion Green in Dayton, Ohio, about the weekend in 2019 in which mass shootings in each city upended their communities.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports on the decision by the Navy to ground all F-14 fighter planes for the next three days. An F-14 Tomcat crashed in the Persian Gulf near the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz today. There were no fatalities in the crash today, but seven people died in two other F-14 crashes in recent weeks.

Jacki reports on the turmoil in the Canadian province of Ontario over budget cutbacks. The Conservative government of Premier Mike Harris has cut about 8-million dollars in spending so far in an effort to curb a 100-million dollar debt. On Friday and Saturday, tens of thousands of union workers rallied in Hamilton, Ontario to protest government policies. The province faces a strike by members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) at 12:01 Monday morning. Union offices warned the walk-outs would escalate, with as many as 55-thousand of the province's 81-thousand union workers off the job by mid-week.The chief issue in contract talks between the union and the government is job security. On Friday, the government announced an 18-percent cut in provincial hospitals and as many as 20-thousand layoffs of hospital workers during the next year.

OUR LETTERS SEGMENT THIS WEEK DEALS ENTIRELY WITH LISTENER RESPONSES TO AN AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY POLL ASKING FOR LINGUITICAL PET PEEVES, NEW WORDS AND REGIONAL EXPRESSIONS.