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but he doubts there's the political will in the White House to do so, which might explain why Mr. Clinton's party lost the votes of workers in the 1994 congressional elections.

and former colleague -- Mike Synar, who died Tuesday of brain cancer. They both served in the House of Representatives, and Edwards believes the American people had in Synar a good example of public service.

The suspended federal budget talks have reached at least one conclusion. Both sides will base their offers on assumptions about future economic trends as projected by the Congressional Budget Office. The director of the CBO, June O'Neill, came in as a Republican appointee, but NPR's Peter Kenyon says she has maintained the office's reputation for non-partisan forecasts.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

the Northeast being shut down.

after a Serb rocket attack killed one woman and wounded six others. It has been described as the worst violence in the city since the arrival of the NATO peace force.

NPR senior news anaylst Daniel Schorr says that the budget impasse may evolve into an election issue, as the talks aimed at resolving the shutdown fail to produce swift results and the prospect of another shutdown looms.

to return as a pre-condition for a lasting peace. But after nearly three decades of Israeli occupation, thousands of Israeli civilians now live on the Heights, and they don't want to leave.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that snow storms have made or broken many a politicians career. She will assess how different cities' and states' key politicians are coping with the response to the Blizzard of 1996, and what lessons have been learned by past politician's failures.

Federal forces say that Chechen rebels must release a group of hostages before they will be permitted to cross the frontier from the republic of Dagestan into Chechnya.