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ESSEX HEMPHILL was a poet who's written about being black and gay and edited anthologies of black gay poets. He died this year. During our interview, last year, he read from his work "Vital Signs" which was written in 1993 after he discovered how low his T-cell count had fallen. Hemphill also wrote two poetry books Earth Life and Conditions and a collection called Ceremonies. He was also the editor of Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men.

Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten who's in the Bosnian city of Mostar, where there's been recent violence between ethnic Croats and Muslims. This could be mean problems for the Croat-Muslim Federation. On New Year's Day a Muslim youth was killed by a Croat policeman...then on Saturday a Croat policeman being killed by shots fired from the Muslim sector. The sound of automatic weapons being fired on both sided continued throughout Satuday evening. Though uneasiness remains, the European Union administrator of the city said today he believes things are calming down.

a lot less than the Republicans are asking for. But it puts something on the table that not only Republicans ... but anxious Democrats can use to begin to make a deal.

7TH GRADERS FROM SUBURBAN BOSTON ARE RAISING FUNDS TO BUILD A SCHOOL IN PAKISTAN TO HONOR A 12 YEAR OLD CHILD LABOR ACTIVIST WHO WAS KILLED EARLIER THIS YEAR. SCOTT SPEAKS WITH TWO OF THE STUDENTS.

NPR'S JULIE MCCARTHY REPORTS FROM SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA THAT PROSECUTORS HAVE ISSUED AN ARREST WARRANT FOR FORMER PRESIDENT CHUN DOO-HWAN. THIS WOULD BE THE SECOND ARREST OF A FORMER PRESIDENT WITHIN A MONTH. FORMER PRESIDENT ROH TAE-WOO IS BEING HELD ON CORRUPTION CHARGES.

NPR'S BRENDA WILSON GIVES A STATUS REPORT ON THE AIDS VIRUS AS THE WORLD OBSERVES AIDS DAY 1995.

Mike Lanchin reports from El Salvador that nearly four years after the end of that country's civil war, a new civilian police force includes people connected to former death squads.

BBC reporter Orla Guerin [GEER-in] reports on the turnover today by Bosnian Serbs of sixteen civilians, including two children, who were detained after they entered a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The Serbs had accused them of "illegal activities," and threatened to put them on trial.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the blizzard that paralayzed the Northeast also dumped unprecedented amounts of snow in the South. Thousands are without power in North Carolina Virginia, and Kentucky, and at least 14 people have died in storm related incidents. Many say they've never seen this much snow.

THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE HAS A NEW LEADER...SELECTED YESTERDAY...AND JUST IN TIME FOR NATO'S BIGGEST, MOST DANGEROUS MISSION YET -- KEEPING THE PEACE IN BOSNIA. SCOTT TALKS WITH FORMER US AMB TO NATO WILLIAM H. TAFT 4TH

SIMON/RON: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT SHARES WITH US HIS PICK FOR THE HEISMAN TROPHY: COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL HONOR.

ALEX CHADWICK TALKS WITH RON RAPOPORT ABOUT THE WORLD SERIES, WHICH STARTS TONIGHT.