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by President Yeltsin declaring his candidacy for this June's election.

Robert remembers musicologist and composer Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, who died yesterday at the age of 86. Eisenstein was the eldest daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism. In 1922, she became the first girl to have a Bat Mitzvah, today a common rite of passage among non-Orthodox Jewish girls.

NPR'S Edward Lifson reports on what is believed to be the first drive-up boar semen facility. Run by the Fox family in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the artificial insemination facility provides semen from high-quality boars for Iowa's growing hog industry. When a farmer has a sow that is ready to be artificially inseminated, he just drives up and picks up his order.

all 45 of them, from Richard Skillen to Vincent Ham.

A story for Valentine's Day from "The Sadness of Sex," called "Poison" told by Barry Yourgrau. (5:00) [An excerpt from the soundtrack to his upcoming film, "The Sadness of Sex."] FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 10. TALKING TO TROOPS -- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the American sector of the NATO implementation force zone in northern Bosnia. In spite of a more agressive position taken by NATO on behalf of the International War Crimes Tribunal, American soldiers don't expect to be apprehending indicted war criminals any time soon.

-NPR'S Andy Bowers reports from Sarajevo on the seizure by NATO forces of what they call a Muslim terrorist training camp just outside the city. Eleven people, including three thought to be Iranians, were arrested at the camp, along with a large arms cache, including rifles, machine guns and booby traps. U.S. Admiral Leighton Smith, the commander of NATO forces in Bosnia, says elements of the mainly Muslim Bosnian government may have been involved in training some of the men to carry out terrorist acts.

NPR's Martha Raddatz spoke with senior U.S. officials who are angered by the discovery of a terrorist camp near Sarajevo but not surprised that the Bosnian government has been lying about the whereabouts of some of these mujahadeen fighters, who were to have left last month. Officials, warning the discovery threatens an already shaky peace process, are demanding full Bosnian government compliance with the terms of the Dayton peace accords.

It's been a week since the IRA bombing in London that spelled an end to a year and a half cease-fire in the Northern Ireland conflict. NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that little progress has been made toward getting the peace process back on track.

One of America's grestest and most prolific composers died last night. Reporter Dean Olsher interviewed him just a few months ago and offers an appreciation.

Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.