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Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut announced al-the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Estimates are that about 150 Lebanese had been killed in the fighting and more than 400 wounded. Hafez Assad in Damascus said the ceasefire was not substitute of peace. Jennifer Griffin reports from Beirut.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from a UN-controlled refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. Whatever may be happening on diplomatic circles, refugees on the ground see no end to the disruption of their lives.

NPR's Neal Conan reports that today is the 35th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. On April 17, 1961, a brigade of Cuban volunteers trained by the Central Intelligence Agency landed at a remote spot on the southern coast of Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The bungled invasion was a military and political disaster for the United States and President John F. Kennedy. And, while the Cold War is now over, the Bay of Pigs remains a rallying cry for the Castro regime, which still uses the threat of American intervention to justify political repression.

Congressional investigators say the Energy Department has overstated the business for U-S firms that was generated by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's trade missions overseas. Her critics in Congress have criticized the cost of the trips but O'Leary says they created a net gain in exports. NPR's John Nielsen has a report on a hearing today about the claims.

up the Japanese computer chip market runs out in July -- Japan does not want it renewed, but the U.S. wants the agreement to be continued.

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on the transformation of Hezbollah from a politically weak party to a force that far transcends the number of seats in parliament. Each day of fighting has turned the Lebanese to look to Hezbollah as an expression of the national will.

for murdering their parents almost seven years ago. The jury spared the brothers the death penalty but recommended life in prison without parole.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on how the war in Liberia has affected the country's Lebanese community. The Lebanese have been in Liberia for about a hundred years, and they control much of business. The war has driven most of the original community of fifteen thousand Lebanese out of the country. About two hundred are holding out, however, including two Lebanese who have kept the capital's only hotel running despite the city's plunge into anarchy over the past month.

Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who has been charged with masterminding the Sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway last year...