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Vice President Al Gore met with the families of airline crash victims today and said the airline industry is making an effort to deal with their concerns. Seven US airlines have agreed to quickly hand over passenger lists to the government after crashes of international flights. Also, the National Transportation Safety Board now has the authority to deal directly with families. The NTSB used that authority following last night's fatal collision of two airplanes in Quincy, Illinois. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

From Jerusalem, Laurie Neff reports on a new Israeli airstrike in Lebanon's Bekaa (beh-KAH) Valley, as a major debate on the wisdom of Israel's occupation of a "security zone" in southern Lebanon reaches a crescendo. The debate began in the wake of a helicopter crash in which 73 Israelies died. Some critics now say that the government should withdraw the troops it has maintained in Southern Lebanon since 1978. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to a withdrawal; many, including some from his own party, believe occupation of the Lebanese border area is no longer worth the cost in Israeli lives.

Critic Bob Mondello reports on the "indefinite postponement" of the Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical, "Whistle Down the Wind." This latest problem with a Lloyd Webber musical has many people asking if Sir Andrew's lost his touch. Mondello says that Lloyd Webber's overdue for a monster hit...and not to count him out just yet.

about the defection of an important North Korean official. Hwang Jang Yop, is the highest official ever to desert the Ruling Workers party.

After the return of millions of refugees, some of them responsible for the genocide, hundreds of people who witnessed the slaughter have been killed.

Robert talks with Stephen Linton, chair of the Eugene Bell Foundation and a research associate at Columbia University, about the defection of Hwang Jang Jop (HWAHNG JAHNG JOPP) from North Korea. They discuss his role in the North Korean government, and what his defection means politically.

still haven't been decided two weeks after polling day -- that's because election officials haven't finished verifying thousands of so-called provisional ballots.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "Fragments" the new memoir by Binjamin Wilkormirski about being a child of the Holocaust. (translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway, published by Schocken

to the Australian Parliament in Canberra and an earlier news conference.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Black Eye" the debut album by the new English band known as "Fluffy" made up of four women.

After appearances by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin before House and Senate committees yesterday and today, the parameters of the budget debate are beginning to emerge. There's likely to be agremeent on changing the way the Consumer Price Index is calculated, for example, but disagreement over a capital gains tax. Still, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that this budget negotiation is likely to be much easier than in previous years.

who have seized control of large areas of eastern Zaire and driven out the Hutu militias.