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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.

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.