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President of the Committee for the Capital City, a group formed recently to work expressly for retrocession: returning most of the District of Columbia to Maryland.

Rwanda, about the United Nations tribunal, which has begun to indict Rwandans on charges of genocide. The U.N. is charging them with allegedly taking part in thousands of killings in Rwanda in 1994. The first two men to be charged are being held in Zambia but will be tranferred to Tanzania for trial later this year.

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.

Commentator Larry Magid looks at the pros/cons of tax software.

conference that begins Friday morning in Italy and also the latest developments in the case of three foreign nationals -- believed to be Iranian-trained mujahideen -- who were arrested by French troops Thursday.

NPR'S Edward Lifson reports on the last day of campaigning by Republican Presidential contenders in Iowa.

which Washington is expected to threaten economic sanctions unless Beijing does more to stop Chinese piracy of American goods.

Robert talks to Brock Meeks, chief Washington correspondent for Wired magazine, about the case of William White, a student at the University of Maryland. White posted a message on several Internet newsgroups urging people to call a woman White claimed was abusing her daughter. Recipients of the message harrassed the woman without verifying the truth of White's statements. Meeks says that because computer communication is new, people tend to forget that the information imparted is not necessarily accurate.

Robert talks with NPR's Tovia Smith about opening statements today in the trial of John Salvi, accused of murdering two woman at a suburban Boston abortion clinic. His defense lawyers don't dispute murder charge, but they argue Salvi is schizophrenic and should be placed in a mental institution, not prison.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that the announcement last week of three arrests in New York in an alleged cellular phone fraud ring is the latest chapter in an ongoing story. Estimates are that fraud will cost the cellular industry nearly a billion dollars this year. And even as the cellular companies come up with technologies to make cellular phones more secure, crooks manage to outsmart them every step of the way.