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The BBC's Robert Parsons reports on the heavy fighting that is raging for the second straight day in the Chechen capital, Grozny. In Moscow, Russian President Boris Yeltsin says a peace plan for Chechnya is being finalized, but there is no indication he's ready to negotiate with Chechen rebels.

Noah talks to NPR's Melissa Block about former Congressman Jack Kemp's endorsement today of publisher Steve Forbes' presidential campaign. Kemp has been a major promoter of the idea of a flat tax, which is central to Forbes' campaign and his policies for economic growth. But coming on the day after Sen. Bob Dole's big primary wins in eight states, it was unclear what impact the Kemp endorsement would have.

Noah speaks with James Cusack, who covers security affairs for the Irish Times in Dublin. Cusack says the chances for a negotiated settlement between the British government and the IRA have diminished in the wake of the ascendency of the IRA's military wing. He says this hard-line inner core is more violent than the political leadership and less likely to negotiate.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that a tobacco company, the Liggett Group Inc., has agreed to a settlmenment of a major class-action lawsuit. The settlement marks the first time a tobacco company has broken ranks with the industry to settle a major lawsuit individually. As part of the settlement, the company agreed to pay up to $50 million over 25 years for smoking-cessation efforts. The company also agreed to accept restrictions aimed at reducing smoking by young people. The company is also negotiating to settle lawsuits by states attempting to recover medical costs from smoking-related illnesses.

Tango innovator ASTOR PIAZZOLLA. Since the early 60s, PIAZZOLLA lead groups that played an updated tango that connected this Argentinian form with musical innovations from Europe and America, both classical and contemporary. The adjustments had earned him the emnity of Argentinians, and for the most of the 70s he lived in France where he wrote film scores. PIAZZOLLA was a classically trained composer who wrote symphonies and studied with Nadia Boulanger, the renown French instructor of composition. PIAZZOLLA died July 4th, 1992. "57 Minutos Con La Realidad" (Intuition Music, New York) released March 5, is the final recording of the great bandoneonist with his own group. (REBROADCAST from 4/

Robert talks with 18 year old Jacob Lurie, who won a $40,000 scholarship in the Westinghouse Talent Search for his theoretical work with surreal numbers. Lurie talks about his project and the elegance of mathematics.

Daniel meets up with this 22 year old African American comedian who now stars in a new ABC program called "Buddies". The sit-com has received some poor reviews but Chappelle is drawing positive attention. Much of Chappelle's humor focuses on racial issues, but Chappelle says he's not trying to offend people - he just wants them to think.

Mark Gillespie of Alaska Public Radio Network reports on the increasing media and corporate hoopla surrounding the annual Iditarod dogsled race. Once a solitary match of human endurance and skill against nature's worst, it's become a huge logistical operation akin to a military campaign, complete with platoons of camp followers eager to borrow from race's notoriety.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US has confirmed it is sending a second aircraft carrier to international waters near Taiwan. The move is to underline US insistence that China and Taiwan resolve their differences peacfully, as required by longstanding agreements.

today in the first trial connected with the Whitewater land deals. Federal prosecutor, Ray Jahn, alleged that through a series of complicated real estate deals and business loans, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Susan and Jim McDougal -- former business partners with the Clintons -- conspired to defraud the government.

A court in Little Rock has been hearing opening statements today in a case in which President Clinton is expected to testify. A special prosecutor is making a fraud case against the president's former business partners James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports from Little Rock that one prosecution witness says then-Governor Clinton pressured him to make a government-guaranteed loan to Mrs. McDougal. Mr. Clinton denies the allegation.