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involving a man whose grown daughter suddenly remembered how her father killed her childhood playmate 20 years ago has. His 1990 conviction was overturned in 1994, and now this case of repressed memories is being retried.

The Senate Whitewater Committee is wrapping up the week's hearing schedule with more witnesses from the fringes of the controversy. Republicans are keeping the panel going with second-tier witnesses, because the independent counsel has barred them from calling the higher-profile players during his investigation. The committee chairman, Sen. Alphonse D'Amato, hopes he can keep the panel in business long enough to get that possibly-explosive testimony. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports.

BALSAM OBIT: IN MEMORY OF CHARACTER ACTOR MARTIN BALSAM, WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE PLAY A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE THAT WON HIM HIS ONLY ACADEMY AWARD.

Linda speaks with Robin Roberts of ESPN and ABC about tonight's match- up between Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. Both had retired from the game and with Magic's return this week, both are back...and Robin says it's like a dream come true! She also talks about Girls and Women in Sports day...and says it's important for young girls to see strong, aggressive, and talented women athletes in action.

SCOTT TALKS ABOUT EVENTS THIS WEEK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the opening day of a meeting involving the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia and mediators from the NATO-led implementation force (IFOR) in Bosnia. The meeting was called to try to iron out difficulties in implementing the Dayton peace accord. Among the problems: the Bosnian Serbs cut off contacts with IFOR after two army officers, suspected of war crimes, were picked up by the Bosnian government and later flown to The Hague for investigation before the war crimes tribunal.

V - Commentator Katherine Kersten says that although parents may closely supervise what their kids eat, seek out the best schools and monitor homework---they exercise little oversight and impose few standards when it comes to movies, TV and video games that fill kids' afterschool hours. Since entertainment is part of charachter building, that means beavis and butthead are the role models. she says children need to adopt heros and heroines worthy of admiration.

where a Serb sniper was killed by NATO forces, two U.S. servicemen were wounded by a landmine, and the U.N. is launching an investigation of a suspected mass gravesite in northeastern Bosnia.

Robert talks with Robert Freedman, author of Moscow and the Middle East about the appointment of Yevgeni Primakov as Russia's new Foreign Minister. Freedman says the former KGB agent is a skilled diplomat and will of great help to Boris Yeltsin.

Ley (Lee) Garnett of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports from Portland on the devastation from the week's rain and melting snow. The week's downpour has killed at least three people in Oregon and one in southern Washington state. In Portland, retaining walls along the Willamette River have been holding as the river nears it crest. But the Columbia River on the city's north side continues to rise. Half of Oregon's counties are disaster areas and the governor has asked for federal relief.