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Linda talks about new efforts by President Clinton to clamp down on gun violence.

, a reporter for the Moscow Times, about this week's murder of the head of Russia's Ice Hockey Federation. The National Hockey League pays the Federation a great deal of money to allow Russian players to play in North America...this wealth may have attracted the attention of the Russian mafia and led to this killing.

Dan Gunderson of Minnesota Public Radio reports the Red River is expected to crest in Fargo and Grand Forks, North Dakota by tomorrow. The river burst throught a stretch of dikes in Fargo last night, inundating an entire neighborhood. The Red Cross is expected to declare the disaster along the Red River a Level 5 emergency, its most serious designation.

Scott speaks with Grand Forks, North Dakota's fire captain, Vince Liddy, about the flooding in his town.

The Henrietta Marie was a slave ship that sank in the Florida straits in the 18th century. The remains make up a travelling exhibit, which is teaching people about the slave trade. NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from Miami.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that the L.A. Police Commission is scheduled to vote soon on whether to authorize LAPD officers to carry more powerful weapons. The move comes in the wake of last Friday's shootout between heavily armed bank robbers and the police. Police have complained they've long been outgunned by well-trained, well-armed bad guys.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that the nearly three-year-long odyssey of Rwandan Hutu refugees is finally coming to a close, as the United Nations prepares to repatriate those who remain in Zaire. This refugee crisis has confounded the relief community and world powers since its inception. Among the two million Hutus who fled Rwanda in 1994 were many thousands who carried out the genocide against the country's Tutsi minority. While receiving foreign aid, these Hutus intimidated other refugees, terrorized Zairean Tutsis, and used their camps to re-arm and stage military raids against Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government.

With passover only a day away, NPR's Joe Palca gives us the low down on why bread rises. And he explains the difference between leavened and unleavened bread.

The government has too many secrets according to a report issued today by The Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy. The commission, chaired by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D-NY) says that the government's "culture of secrecy" hinders decision making and wastes billions of dollars each year. The panel says that new procedures aimed at reducing the number of classified documents will better protect the relatively few documents that are important to national security. NPR's Neal Conan reports.

Commentator Bob Deans says women's basketball has done a lot for girls, who now know that you don't have to wear a bikini to get into Sports Illustrated. He should know as he nears the end of a satisfying year coaching his young daughter's basketball team.