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Rene Preval who formally begins his duties today. Preval takes over from his predecessor, Jean Bertrand Aristide. The peaceful transfer of power was a first for the caribbean nation. But many Haitians wished Arisitide would remain in office.

A conversation about legendary pool player Minnesota Fats who died this morning at his home in Nashville. Noah talks with Jim Murray, who's a columnist with the Los Angeles Times.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says that neither Congress nor President Clinton will decide the outcome of the current budget crisis. He says it is the voters who made balancing the budget the issue in 1994, and it is the voters who will rule on it in this year's elections.

Robert talks to Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, about his effort to change the Amtrack decision of dropping the names of some of its trains, like the Night Owl, and replacing the names with numbers.

an engineer with Garfield County, Washington, about a local phenomenon that may take years to solve: a new section of road that smokes and sometimes even bursts into flame.

caucus venues in Iowa. He reports on the debate and the issues on the minds' of voters at a Des Moines City precinct.

Robert talks with Linda Wertheimer who is in New Hampshire following the campaign. She assesses the mood of Granite State, as well as the fortunes of the Republican presidential candidates in the run-up to the state's primary next week.

hostage crisis in the Russian region of Dagestan.

The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the GOP has and has had for a long time a very sophisticated machine in place to attract young voters. Since the days of Richard Nixon, the Republicans have reached out to young people on campus, through lunches, happy hours and other events. The Democrats have no such machine, and in big states like California, the average age of registered Democrats is more than 65.