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leading business executives and education experts to discuss creating national educational standards.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez talks to Linda Wertheimer from a national education summit that started today in Palisades, NY. The nation's governors have gathered to discuss raising educational standards, a discussion that began in 1989 when President Bush called the governors to a meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia that lead to the establishment of the controversial "Goals 2000" initiative.

Okinawa to sign lease extensions for U.S. bases on the island. Earlier Prime Minister Hashimoto said talks on shifting U.S. troops from Okinawa to other parts of Japan had been stalled by tensions in the Taiwan Strait.

has removed the Bronx Distract Attorney after he refused to give an explicit guarantee he would seek the death penalty for the killer of a policeman shot dead this week.

considered possible Vice Presidential candidates this year. George Voinovich of Ohio, John Engler of Michigan, and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin have taken similar positions on social and economic issues. All three deny seeking the nomination, but their actions suggest otherwise.

WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH WINSTON LORD, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC AFFAIRS, AND CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER COX (R-CA), CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN POLICY COMMITTEE, ABOUT THE EVENTS IN THE STRAITS OF TAIWAN THIS WEEK.

Buzz Conover of Florida Public Radio reports that the tobacco industry is trying to repeal law under which Florida is trying recover Medicaid costs paid out by state for smoking related illnesses. Tobacco industry has mounted expensive media campaign urging repeal, while Florida Governor Lawton Chiles is countering with his own, more modest, media campaign.

today in the first trial connected with the Whitewater land deals. Federal prosecutor, Ray Jahn, alleged that through a series of complicated real estate deals and business loans, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker and Susan and Jim McDougal -- former business partners with the Clintons -- conspired to defraud the government.

A court in Little Rock has been hearing opening statements today in a case in which President Clinton is expected to testify. A special prosecutor is making a fraud case against the president's former business partners James and Susan McDougal and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker. NPR's Jon Greenberg reports from Little Rock that one prosecution witness says then-Governor Clinton pressured him to make a government-guaranteed loan to Mrs. McDougal. Mr. Clinton denies the allegation.

popularity as he prepares for today's primary in New York. He is expecting another good day there after sweeping all eight primaries earlier this week. Yesterday, Dole gained the endorsement of Texas governor, George Bush, Jr.