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NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that conservatives are upset over the courtmartial and discharge of Army medic Michael New for refusing to wear a UN patch or blue cap while on a UN peacekeeping mission in Macedonia. New has become a hero to those opposed to the UN because they fear the United States is ceding national sovereignty to a one-world body.

NPR's Vicky Que examines the rationale for barring individuals infected with the AIDS virus from serving in the military. Like other service personnel with diabetes, cancer and other diseases, they are not deployed for combat or overseas duty. But they are healthy, can still perform their tasks and do not necessarily represent a risk to other soldiers.

White House Spokesman Michael McCurry has said Mrs. Clinton's appearance before the grand jury was "about as welcome as a trip to the dentist's office." We check with one member of the maligned profession for reaction.

2 : Sexologist LEONORE TIEFER. (Tee-fur) book "Sex Is Not a Natural Act: and Other Essays."(Westview) was published in 1995, and has since come out in paperback. In the book she looks at our society's anxieties and ignorances towards sex. She also questions what is "normal" sex and how people are to know how to have sex if no one talks about it. . TIEFER received a Ph.D. in physiological psychology with a dissertation on hormones and mating behavior of rats. But TIEFER came to realize she knew nothing of the social norms of sexuality and questoned how sexual norms evolved. She re-specialized in clinical psychology and became a sex researcher, sex therapist and an Associate Professor of Urology and Psychiatry at the Montefoire Medical Center in New York City. Tiefer has also been a sex columnist for the New York Daily News. (REBROADCAST from 2

Today's budget talks have been suspended. Robert Siegel speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson from the White House and Peter Kenyon from Capitol Hill about the why the negotiaitions broke down. Budget negotiators gathered again at the White House today, amid reports from both sides that the talks are on the verge of ending, either with a balanced budget agreement or a failure. Republicans had been hinting that, if they can't reach a settlement with President Clinton, they will bypass him and cut a deal with congressional Democrats to cut spending and taxes.

(host copy) Poet Joseph Brodsky died today. The Russian exile, who lived in New York, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. He went on to become the U.S. Poet Laureate. We'll hear Brodsky read his poem, "Bosnia Tune."

of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, about the best ways to clear away all the snow.

about the reasons behind the President's trip to Bosnia today. They also discuss the historical precedents for chiefs of staff going abroad to visit the troops.

SCOTT HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BLIZZARD OF '96.

Linda talks with Thomas Bartlett, editor-in-chief of Baylor University's campus newspaper, "The Lariat." Bartlett describes the excitement among students over the impending change in the traditional Baptist univeristy's 150-year injunction against dancing.