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developments in the Zapatista rebellion. The Mexican government will meet with the Mayan Indian rebels today to discuss the rebels' demands of greater autonomy for millions of indigenous people in Mexico.

Blue Dog Democrats are offering a budget compromise that could be accceptable to both the Republicans and the White House. Blue Dogs are fiscally conservative democrats. Linda Wertheimer talks with one of these Blue Dogs.... Representative Gary Condit of California. He and the other blue dogs, have offered a moderate budget plan that could appease both the Republicans as well as the White House. The Blue Dogs hope their budget is introduced in Congress as a possible solution to the budget debate deadlock.

open for another six weeks, which passed the House last night and goes to the Senate today. House Republicans and Democrats and Clinton administration officials spent a long day working out a compromise.

Commmentator Amy Dickenson feels a little guilty about the terrible blizzard- she may have cast the spell that caused it!

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the Senate debate today on the stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government operating through March 15th

Danny speaks with Ann Marie Riley, a Catholic Relief Services worker based in the African country, Burundi. They discuss the escalating violence between ethnic Hutu and Tutsi in Burundi, which threatens the country with a genocide like that which took place in neighboring Rwanda nearly two years ago.

35 YEARS AGO JOHN F.KENNEDY HELD THE FIRST LIVE TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE. WE PLAY A FEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THAT CONFERENCE.

who change jobs or get laid off, to maintain their health insurance. Two of the bill's sponsor, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, and Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, are trying to move it onto the Senate floor for a vote.

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.