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President Clinton names U.S. Trade Represnetative Mickey Kantor to head the Commerce Department. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

- would end civil litigation over price fixing in the market for lysene, a food supplement for livestock. The company still faces a raft of lawsuits all relating to alledged price fixing in a number of agricultural markets.

MUSLIM GUERRILLAS FIRED ROCKETS AT NORTHERN ISRAEL THIS MORNING AFTER A WAVE OF RAIDS BY ISRAELI AIRCRAFT AGAINST SOUTH LEBANON VILLAGES. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NPR'S ERIC WEINER, WHO IS IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.

under Bosnian Serb or Moslem-Croat control. Over the weekend she attended a rally by Moslem-Croats, protesting the resettlement of Brchko by Bosnian Serbs.

LEBANON - NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that despite the latest fighting in Israel, there are indications that the attacks may soon be winding down. Lebanese officials rejected the US proposal to end the fighting, but Israeli sources says once the US weighs in, an agreement is likely to follow.

sweep of the western primaries and Pat Buchanan's grudging concession that the Senate majority leader will be the GOP nominee.

A nicotine nasal spray that helps smokers quit has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Linda talks with ???? of the F-D-A about the approval for the sale of this new product called Nicotrol NS. Smokers will soon be able to buy the nasal spray at in pharmacies later this year. ??? explains the safety and the risks of this new product.

served in the war. And researchers say that despite sometimes painful memories, most veterans led more successful lives than those who didn't serve. And experts say it was the military experience that made the difference.

Associate Professor at Columbia University of Public Health DR. NAHID TOUBIA. She is from Sudan, and was the first woman surgeon in her country. TOUBIA is director of "Rainbo" a research and information organization dedicated to the health and human rights of women, particularly women's reproductive and sexual rights. They've begun a campaign against female genital mutilation. TOUBIA has written a report: "Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action." (for copies contact: Women, Ink., 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, (212) 687-8633.) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE SECOND HALF OF THE

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its military campaign in advance of president Boris Yeltsin's expected peace plan announcement on Sunday. But the Chechen rebels are threatening terrorist attacks on Moscow itself.

to pay the back dues their government owes the United Nations. The U.S. is a billion dollars in arrears.