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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the decision by the European Union to lift diplomatic sanction against Austria. Austria's 14 EU partners imposed the sanctions seven months ago, after conservative Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party then led by Joerg Haider.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that Iraq appears to be violating a United Nations program that allows it to sell oil and buy food and medicine for needy citizens. There's evidence that Iraq is re-exporting some of the food and medicine to other countries. Iraq refuses to allow UN inspectors to evaluate living conditions 10 years after the UN imposed economic sanctions. And it refuses to allow UN weapons inspectors into the country.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the relationship between the auto industry and the government. Much has changed from the early 1950's, when auto companies could be antagonistic in their dealings with Washington over safety issues. Today, they're operating a more flexible way of lobbying.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on the high cost of rental property in the San Francisco Bay area. One Internet company that is laying off workers and planning to move out of Silicon Valley to escape the high cost of doing business there.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports that President Clinton and Congressional leaders met yesterday at the White House for one of their first serious talks on this year's budget. The meeting produced little substantive progress.

NPR's Alex Chadwick reports that marine explorer Bob Ballard has found evidence of a 7000 year old human settlement under 300 feet of water in the Black Sea. Ballard believes the civilization was flooded after melting ice age glaciers caused the Mediterranean to surge over its banks and flow into what was then a shallower lake. The discovery could shed light on the biblical story of the great flood.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that voters in Selma, Alabama elected their first black mayor yesterday. Businessman James Perkins defeated Joe Smitherman, a former segregationist who took office about six months before the bloody voting rights marches that eventually led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Steve Young of Vermont Public Radio reports four state legislators lost their seats yesterday when they lost the primary election. The lawmakers were republicans that voted for a controversial law granting gay couples almost all the rights of marriage. After the bill passed a number of groups mobilized to repeal it...and to encourage voters to remove those who supported the measure.

This Saturday, the nation's first modern paved road will be reopened to the public after nearly fifty years. The Columbia River Highway was built back in 1913 and runs alongside the scenic Columbia. Kristian Foden-Vencil has a report.

In 1995 Filmmaker Henry Corra gave his autistic son, George, a video camera. Henry used the video his son shot and, along with co-filmmaker Grahame Weinbren, documented the life of his son -- the resulting film is called George, and it airs on HBO tomorrow and Sunday. Linda talks with Grahame Weinbren and Henry and George Corra about the making of the film and how it has affected their lives.