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The suspended federal budget talks have reached at least one conclusion. Both sides will base their offers on assumptions about future economic trends as projected by the Congressional Budget Office. The director of the CBO, June O'Neill, came in as a Republican appointee, but NPR's Peter Kenyon says she has maintained the office's reputation for non-partisan forecasts.

NPR's Joe Palca explains 'sublimation,' the direct transition from a solid to a gas without any liquid phase. Snow, to some degree, disappears through this process.

conference of 1996. The President fielded numerous questions about the budget impasse with Congress and about allegations regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton's roles in Whitewater and in the White House travel office. The President also defended his decision to visit U.S. troops stationed in Bosnia.

2: Psychologist DONALD DUTTON is a pioneer in the study and treatment of abusive men. He is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, and the director of the Assaultive Husbands Program in Vancouver, Canada. Recently DUTTON was an expert witness for the prosecution in the pretrial of O.J. Simpson. His new book (co-authored with Susan Golant) is The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (Basic Books). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES through THE HALF HOUR).

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CHARLES GRANADA is a Cop who has an extensive archive of Sinatra recordings. Many of the them have been used for Sinatra reissues. He was Project Director for the box set: "Frank Sinatra: The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952).INT 3: JIMMY ISAACS has co-produced reissues of Sinatra recordings for Columbia and Reprise.INT 4: Trumpet player and arranger BILLY MAY. INT 5: Songwriter MATT DENNIS. He wrote "Angel Eyes," "Everything Happens to Me," and "Let's Get Away From it All."

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on a 5th circuit Court decision handed down today. In the decision the court said teachers did not have the right to lead their students in prayer.

Federal forces say that Chechen rebels must release a group of hostages before they will be permitted to cross the frontier from the republic of Dagestan into Chechnya.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo on efforts to stop Bosnian Serbs from fleeing their homes in the Sarajevo suburbs. Under the Dayton peace agreement, those Serb suburbs come under the control of the Muslim-led Bosnia government. There are reports that some Serbs are loading everything they can into their cars and burning their houses after leaving. The top civilian adminstrator for NATO today met with three Bosnian Serb leaders to explore ways to stop the exodus.

Linda Werthimer talks with White House advisor Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the national economic advisor to the President about the suspension of budget negotiations. After 50 hours of talks, the Republicans and the President still have not reached a settlement of the terms of the budget. Ms. Tyson tells us what the White House hopes to achieve and preserve in the budget, and explains the differences between the Republicans and White House hopes for Medicare and tax cuts.