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commander of U.S. ground troops in Bosnia. General Nash says he expects to have his peacekeepers out of Bosnia by the end of the year, in keeping with the President's pledge to Congress. Also now that things are a little quieter in the war-torn region, the forces are making tactical adjustments.

President Clinton announced a program today that will track the origins of guns confiscated from teenaged criminals. The 17-city effort will collect serial numbers and other information on the guns and feed that into a computer system run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The network should improve law enforcement's chances of finding out who is selling guns to juveniles. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the President has high hopes for the program, but some analysts don't see it making much of a dent in crime.

John McChesney says Japan is slowly emerging from its long recession and confronting a big hurdle that many believe could hobble progress... a society that stifles individual creativity by cultivating conformity.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stadd) reports that President Clinton's national security advisor, Anthony Lake, today held a second day of political and economic talks with Chinese officials. The discussions are designed to stabilize Sino-U-S relations and end months of cross-Pacific bickering.

The Senate approved a 90-cent-an-hour increase in the minimum wage today. The package includes a tax break for small business, to ease the impact of the higher wages. Proponents beat back Republican proposals including an exemption for workers in small businesses, and a delay of the increase for six months. President Clinton had threatened to veto the measure if it included those changes. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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2: The artist who moved studio glass from craft to fine art, DALE CHIHULY. The world premier showing of translucent sculpture from his "Finland Suite" is currently at Jack Lenor Larsen's Long House Foundation in East Hampton, New York. This fall, his exhibit "Chihuly Over Venice" will be featured at the international Contemporary Art Glass exhibition. CHIHULY is among the best known American artists working today and is one of only four Americans to be given a one-man show at the Louvre.

the director of the National Security Program of the Countil on Foreign Relations, about the possibility that the crash was caused by terrorism.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on two federal HMO programs for the elderly. People who join get not just medical care - they also receive social supports like home nursing aides -- but members are limited to the health care providers in the HMOs. The goal is to keep people as healthy as possible as long as possible while holding down costs. So far, at least, there are few complaints about the programs.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on MSNBC -- the new 24-hour cable news channel that offers CNN its first-ever direct competition. Despite 16-years of bad press, low ratings and slow profits, CNN is thriving in its niche market -- upscale, middle-aged, news junkies. MSNBC hopes to lure chunks of that audience away with round-the-clock timeliness and 24-hour linkage to an expansive internet website. The other networks will be watching closely to see how much slicing the 24-hour news market can bear.