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Noah talks to the BBC's Chris Nuttal about a group of rebel Chechens who hijacked a Russian ship today in Turkey and are holding the passengers hostage.

Robert talks with journalist Tom Goltz about freedom-fighting Turks of Caucasian ancestry and the hostage crisis on the Black Sea. Chechens have taken 200 people hostage aboard a ferry boat and have threatened to blow the boat up once they reach Istanbul. Goltz spent the last four years in Turkey and the Caucasus and is writing a book about the wars in the post-Soviet Caucasus.

Times are tough for hospitals in rural areas -- people are moving away, and spending for health care, which these hospitals rely on, is being reduced. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how a federal program is helping a small hospital in western Kansas survive.

DAY BIRTHS - Tandaleya Wilder of Connecticut Public Radio reports that a hospital in Greenwich has decided not to discharge mothers who've given birth after only one day, as most insurance companies insist. Hospital officials say one-day stays are dangerous for newborn babies and their mothers. The second day's stay will be at the hospital's expense.

Daniel talks with jazz musician Michael Wolff, who plays solo piano for us in our studio. The former bandleader for the Arsenio Hall Show is now traveling and recording with a trio - and that's been a quite a change of lifestyle for him.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the latest news about three men accused of raping a Japanese girl in Okinawa. The Navy's Admiral in charge pf the Pacific resigned today after commenting on the rape case, further straining relations between the two countries.

Administration officials and members of Congress appeared on the Sunday talk shows today, debating the merits and liabilities of sending American troops to Bosnia to help enforce the Dayton peace accord. NPR's John Nielsen reports .

to secure the release of 16 Muslim civilians seized earlier this week in a Serb-controlled suburb of Sarajevo. It's the first real test of the NATO mission in Bosnia.

BBC reporter Orla Guerin [GEER-in] reports on the turnover today by Bosnian Serbs of sixteen civilians, including two children, who were detained after they entered a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The Serbs had accused them of "illegal activities," and threatened to put them on trial.