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Members of the House and Senate conference comittee today announced their agreement on the final version of a counter-terrorism bill. The legislation makes it easier to deport terrorists, bans terrorist groups from fund-raising in the U.S., provides extra funding for police efforts, and requires some explosives to be tagged. It also limits court appeals by death row inmates. The final bill restores a number of items which the Clinton administration favored that had passed the Senate but had been removed in the House. Both houses are expected to vote this week. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses the politics of welfare reform with Douglas Besharov, of the American Enterprise Institute, and David Ellwood of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

- Harriet Baskas reports on the origin of the Soap Opera. These daytime serial dramas date back to the 1930's and the early days of radio. Most of the advertisers on these programs manufactured household products - so the shows were dubbed "soaps." We'll hear excerpts from many radio soaps,including TODAY'S CHILDREN, THE GUIDING LIGHT, and JOYCE JORDAN,M.D. - and we'll hear interviews with some of the actors who performed in them.

- NPR's Laura Ziegler reports that in Bob Dole's Kansas, moderates and religious conservatives are fighting for control of the state Republican Party.

President Clinton has ordered the sale of U.S. oil reserves, and Republicans in Congress are calling for a repeal of the 1993 gasoline tax. The increase has hit California the hardest... where oil companies must sell more expensive, cleaner-burning fuel to help keep down the state's high rates of air pollution... a gallon of gas in California is selling for as much as a dollar-and-73-cents.

The ceasefire in Liberia that has kept warring factions peaceful for almost two weeks has been broken. U.S. Marines today killed three Liberians near the American Embassy compound in Monrovia and wounded a fourth. The men were shot after fighting broke out in the capital. An American soldier was slightly wounded in today's fighting. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.

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Robert talks to Mike Agnes, the editorial director for Webster's New World College Dictionary about words that are under consideration for the next edition of the dictionary... including "duh."

Susan talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein from Jerusalem about this week's election in Israel. Benjamin Netanyahu was elected prime minister by a narrow margin, defeating the incumbent Shimon Peres.

Hawaiian Leslie Lang didn't learn to speak her native language until she went to college. Her parents never spoke it, and she rarely heard it spoken. But she finds the ancient language of her family has brought her in touch with stories and traditions which had all but disappeared for her family. She can read the stories of her Great Great Great grandfather, and she can talk with her grandmother in the language that she herself hasn't heard spoken in 50 years. Leslie Lang is a student at the University of Hawaii.