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Congressional budget committees took up the Republicans' new proposal for the fiscal year 1997 budget today. The plan, intended to lead to a balanced federal budget in six years, includes a smaller tax cut and fewer cuts in domestic spending than previous proposals. Congressional Democrats criticized the budget plan, but President Clinton called it "movement in the right direction". NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Jennifer Griffin reports that funeral services were held today for people who died when Israel bombed a refugee camp in southern Lebanon last week. The deaths helped spur the United States to seek a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah guerillas.

NPR's John Ydstie reports the oil industry is countering statements from politicians about climbing gas prices by pointing to some basic market forces: supply and demand. The oil industry maintains there has been no price gouging and that the oil industry's rate of return is actually lower than average for overall manufacturing.

against a Mitsubishi auto plant in Illinois has raised certain cultural issues. One question is how to maintain equal opportunity for women in work environments typically dominated by men.

NPR's Diedre Berger reports from Hamburg, Germany, on the trial in which an American is accused of distributing neo-nazi propaganda...an illegal act in Germany. Gary Lauck of Lincoln, Nebraska, was arrested in Denmark last year and extradicted to Germany for the trial.

The formerly-mismanaged Chicago Housing Authority has been run by HUD --- the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development --- for almost a year now. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that HUD is taking a long-term approach to revamping the city's public housing.

Commentator Marion Winik wonders if her drinking is getting out of hand. The tell tale signs: reading about her alcohol related adventures in a local sports column, and finding solace in a book about alcoholic writers. However, she is comforted by the fact that she is the picture of sobriety compared to her idol, Dorothy Parker.

NPR'S Brooke Gladstone reports on an Austin Texas television station's effort to reduce the violence in its local newscasts. News executives at K-VUE have adopted experimental guidelines for determining whether certain violent pictures or stories should even air. Its local competitors accuse K-VUE of arrogantly filtering the news. Yet the station's newscasts are number one in its market.

Robert remarks on some "non-news" from Eastern Europe which is becoming less and less Eastern. In Poland, a new anti-smoking law took effect last month.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by CompuServe Inc., the second largest on-line service, to join the wave of private on-line service providers that are exchanging their private, proprietary software for the open language of the World Wide Web. The move leaves the nation's number-one access provider, America Online, as the sole remaining service to require subscribers to use special software and access points to reach the Internet.