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Chris Nuttall ((NUT-uhl)) reports from Ankara, Turkey, that a chasm has opened between the United States and Europe over arming the Bosnian government. Thirty countries had come to Turkey at the request of the United States to talk about helping the Bosnians build an effective fighting force. Studies show the Bosnians need 800-million-dollars. The U.S. will contribute a hundred-million-dollars in military stocks. Not one European Union country made an immediate pledge.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the federal government today announced which new high-speed train system Amtrak would buy for the Northeast corridor. The train is expected to significantly reduce the time it takes to travel by train between Washington, New York and Boston.

Four years ago, Lead or Leave was founded as a poltical organization aimed at young Americans. Although the organization received a lot of press attention, commentator Michele Mitchell says the group, as well as Third Millenium, another organization aimed at the same generation, have both failed to attract many followers.

Vincent Thompson of member station WHYY reports on the major dispruption on Interstate-95, five miles north of Philadelphia. Arsonists set a huge pile of illegally dumped tires on fire, and that, in turn, damaged a section of the highway that carries about 150-thousand cars each day.

Commentator Ona [OH-nah] Sipporin was in Alaska this week -- to see part of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. While in the Village of Takatna [tah-KAHT-nah], she saw a community turn out in force to offer hospitality and warmth to the mushers and their dogs.

Michael Radford is an English director whose film, Il Postino, made in Italy, has been nominated for five Academy Awards. Radford talks to Robert about directing a film in a foreign language, and the different approaches in making AIDS commericals in England and France.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that although many are focusing on who Robert Dole should choose as a running mate, the real task ahead of him is how to function as Senate Majority Leader when his presidential rival is head of the executive branch.