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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Florence, Italy, where an international conference is reviewing the progress of peace in the former Yugoslavia. The fighting has stopped, the armies are separated and the one-year-long NATO mission is nearly half over. Two important issues are on the agenda in Florence: finding a solution to re-settling an estimated two-million people uprooted by the war, and deciding whether the elections scheduled for September should be held.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the first indictment of Theodore Kaczynski as the person responsible for the Unabomber's mail-bombing attacks. A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned a ten-count indictment against Kaczynski, covering four separate bomb attacks that killed two people and injured two others.

Music reviewer Mark Jenkins has a report on music from some of today's all-girl bands who call themselves "Riot Grrrls." (GIRLS) Their style features confrontational, in-your-face lyrics, and an uncompromisingly frank attitude about men, sexuality, and modern life. Jenkins takes a look at music from the Raincoats, Bikini Kill, and Sleater-Kinney. (IN STEREO)

NPR's Deidre Berger reports from Berlin where Pope John Paul the Second celebrated mass yesterday in the stadium Adolf Hitler built for the Olympics of 1936. The Pope beatified two German priests for their resistance to the Third Reich. The Pope omitted some phrases of his prepared speech that claimed the "entire" Roman Catholic church had fought against the tyranny of the Nazis.

Sylvia Poggioli reports on the Italian port city of Trieste (tree-EST), where the first East-West confrontation of the Cold War took place in 1945. Between 1945 and 1954, a total of one hundred twenty thousand U-S soldiers served a peacekeeping mission in Trieste similar to the current mission of U-N peacekeepers in the former Yoguslavia. Trieste recently welcomed back the American peacekeepers who served there after World War Two and thanked them for their service.

Robert Siegel speaks with an Israeli who will vote for the Likud party in tomorrow's election. Ofer Mizrachi (OH-fair miz-RAH-hee), a Sephardic (seh-FAR-dik) Jew, lives with his family in a Tel Aviv suburb close to the border between Israel and the West Bank. He says he is afraid of the final deal that Shimon Peres will make with the Palestinians.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the outcome of the first round of Russian elections is not surprising, and that exit polls indicate that there is hope for democracy in Russia.

sacked three senior officials.

The Senate today began debate on a bill to reform the campaign finance system by limiting the amount congressional candidates can spend. But as NPR's Peter Overby reports, similar federal restrictions have had limited success in capping spending by presidential contenders.

Surgeons are increasingly finding ways to operate on fetuses while they are still in the womb. The operations can correct problems that in the past would have been fatal, or left the child with severe disabilities. But the operations raise many questions, including whether they are worth the cost and risk to the mother. Neil Tichner (TICK-nur) of member station WHYY in Philadelphia reports.