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is run in a very autocratic way by the royal family which doesn't brook any dissent...

with the IRS over designating some workers as independent contractors instead of employees...

NPR's John Nielsen reports on today's announcement by President Clinton that he wants to impose stronger airport security measures... including more hand-searches of luggage and more intense inspections of planes. This The President acknowledged that the new security steps would increase delays and inconvenience for passengers.

-- proud to have achieved its freedom after a long battle with Ethiopia. Western nations, impressed with the people and lack of government corruption, are rushing to offer aid. But Eritrea is very picky about the aid it will accept... (8:18

NPR's Adam Hockberg reports that thousands packed the ceremonies for the re-opening of Olympic Park in the heart of Atlanta today in a determined show of defiance to terrorist threats. The park, in the heart of the city was shut down after a pipe bomb explosion killed one woman and injured more than a hundred others.

Wade Goodwyn reports from Atlanta on concerns among black voters and how they may affect voter turnout this fall. Recent Supreme Court decisions, church burnings, and Congressional efforts to cut social programs give black Americans the sense that they are under attack. Some black leaders say the effect will be to motivate more black people to vote in November. Others say just the opposite will happen.

about the U.S. women's team's performance and the effect of spreading the tournament across the country rather than in Atlanta.

about the latest news on the E-coli outbreak in Japan.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that researchers have made a promising step toward repairing spinal cord damage. In a study being reported in the journal Science, researchers were able to transplant nerves to the severed spinal cords of rats to bridge the damaged area. The rats then appeared to regain at least partial use of their hind legs.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went before a joint session of Congress to reaffirm his tough new stand on the Middle East process, underlining his differences with the land-for-peace approach embraced by the Clinton Administration.