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to yesterday's Israeli elections.

Three top Air Force officials have been relieved of command in connection with the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other people in Croatia. The Air Force says the brigadier general and two colonels responsible for the 86th Airlift Wing have lost the confidence of their commander, because of facts revealed in the probe of the plane crash. The statement does not assign any blame for the crash. The investigation continues. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports on today's developments.

- Tom visits National Geographic's Explorers' Hall in Washington, D.C. to meet Juanita, the five-hundred year old mummy discovered in Peru last year. Juanita was an Inca human sacrifice. She was around 13 years old at the time of her death. Her body has been frozen all these years and is extremely well preserved. Tom talks with archaeologist Johan Reinhard who found Juanita about the circumstances of her death and the significance of her discovery.

Israel will elect its next prime minister on Wednesday. Robert talks with an Arab family from Acre (AY-kr), a coastal city in northern Israel. The Mansour family, and their inlaws, have prospered in the peace that Prime Minister Shimon Peres has celebrated throughout his campaign. While most Arab Israelis vote for obscure leftist Arab parties, Israel's Arab elite generally hopes to maintain the relative peace which is now prevailing in Israel. The Mansour family will likely support Peres in Wednesday's election.

NPR's John Ydstie reports that the critical Cockpit Voice Recorder being analyzed at National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington indicates that there was a fire in the passenger compartment of the aircraft before the plane went down.

One year ago, President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich held an unprecendented joint town meeting in Claremont, New Hampshire. It was described as "cordial", "low-key", and a "love-in", where both leaders talked about the future of the country with little arguing and without raising their voices. They shook hands and pledged to do something about campaign finance reform. One year later, the Claremont resident who asked them to "clean up Washington" wonders why nothing's been done. (2:30)

NPR's Peter Overby reports that the Democratic National Committee today filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, charging that Bob Dole's presidential campaign has exceeded its limits on campaign spending. Dole denies he has violated campaign spending laws and countered that President Clinton's campaign should return $11 million it has received in public funding for the Democratic primary because he had no challenger.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren says in the nation's heartland, young people are suffering from the same issues as the rest of the nation---single parent familes, poverty...and then isolation, boredom and a tendency to reckless behavior.

in an effort to close the big gap with the President.

one of the organizers of a coalition of American Catholics who are attempting to change some of the Church's most established traditions. Though the Pope has proven staunchly resistant to the sorts of changes the group wants to foster -- the ordination of women and the permission of marriage in the priesthood, for example -- the coalition is hoping to influence Church policy in the future by demonstrating grass-roots support now.