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President Clinton made a rare trip to Capitol Hill today to begin the budget negotiation process. He and congressional leaders came out of a meeting saying they had agreed to try to balance the budget by 2002. They also agreed to work on improving education, cutting taxes, and other items, although they still need to resolve their disparate approaches. NPR's Brian Naylor has a report.

The Mendi Bible was stolen this week from the library of former President John Quincy Adams. It was an important piece of history in the anti-slavery movement. Scott speaks with historian Paul Nagle.

NPR's Barbara Bradley joins Congress incoming freshman class at their orientation. This is when the new legislators learn how to organize their offices and become familiar with the nuts-and-bolts details of their next two years. And, as Bradley reports, this class is different from its predecessors: they're already talking compromise.

- In an attempt to give business majors some on-the-job training, Washington University in St. Louis is providing entrepreneurs with students to help them write up business plans. NPR's Chris Arnold reports the program provides business people with inexpensive help, the students with real-life business experience and the possibility of dividends for both if their joint efforts are successful.

Robert speaks with Willi Korte (KOR-tay), a lawyer and World War II historian, about the announcement that Switzerland's three largest banks are setting up a fund in memory of Holocaust victims. Korte discusses the nature of Switzerland's neutrality during the war - Switzerland sheltered some Jewish refugees, but turned away others. It also accommodated offices for both the OSS and German intelligence agencies. Korte says the big question is how much of the billions of dollars worth of gold and art that flowed through Switzerland during the war is still there.

The huge waves that pound northern California beaches in the off-season are known to surfers as "the dogs of winter." A new psychological thriller called "The Dogs of Winter," by Kem Nunn, follows a surfer-photographer on what may be his last assignment. Alan Cheuse has the review. (STATIONS: "The Dogs of Winter" is published by Scribner's. "Kem" in author name is cq.)

Robert talks with NPR's Martha Raddatz about the possible new commitment of U.S. troops in Bosnia. They discuss how the mission will be defined, what its goals and objectives will be, and how the troops will operate on the ground in Bosnia. Also, they'll talk about the foreign policy credibility of the Clinton Administration and the Pentagon and what each hopes to accomplish with this new deployment of troops.

for power between the Taliban militia and forces loyal to the ousted government.

Robert talks to NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Gisenyi, Rwanda, about the mass return of refugees from the nearby town of Goma, Zaire. Relief agencies are scrambling to handle the unexpected crush of roughly half a million people who returned over the past four days. As the throngs have headed home, families have been separated, and relief agencies are caring for a few thousand children who can't find their parents. Meanwhile, returnees face the situation of returning home to find their houses occupied by squatters.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the nation's capital has become the battleground for competing political scandals.