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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TESTIFIED BEFORE A GRAND JURY YESTERDAY ON WHITEWATER. NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS.

and restore normal activity in cities along the Eastern Seaboard in the aftermath of this week's winter storm.

Just who owns jazz? Does it come from an African source? Or is it the result of a confluence of cultures in this country? Saxophonist Archie Shepp believes that jazz belongs to black people, culturally, and that it should be theirs financially too. More from reporter Deal Olsher, on jazz business and jazz history.

who change jobs or get laid off, to maintain their health insurance. Two of the bill's sponsor, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, and Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, are trying to move it onto the Senate floor for a vote.

Blue Dog Democrats are offering a budget compromise that could be accceptable to both the Republicans and the White House. Blue Dogs are fiscally conservative democrats. Linda Wertheimer talks with one of these Blue Dogs.... Representative Gary Condit of California. He and the other blue dogs, have offered a moderate budget plan that could appease both the Republicans as well as the White House. The Blue Dogs hope their budget is introduced in Congress as a possible solution to the budget debate deadlock.

Virginia Biggar reports on one of the biggest anti-pollution efforts in the country: reformulated gas. It's the world's cleanest burning auto fuel for the general market, and it goes on sale next June. Introducing it statewide will do as much to reduce air pollution as removing 3.5 million vehicles from state roads.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Danny speaks with Ann Marie Riley, a Catholic Relief Services worker based in the African country, Burundi. They discuss the escalating violence between ethnic Hutu and Tutsi in Burundi, which threatens the country with a genocide like that which took place in neighboring Rwanda nearly two years ago.

35 YEARS AGO JOHN F.KENNEDY HELD THE FIRST LIVE TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE. WE PLAY A FEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THAT CONFERENCE.

White House Spokesman Michael McCurry has said Mrs. Clinton's appearance before the grand jury was "about as welcome as a trip to the dentist's office." We check with one member of the maligned profession for reaction.