March 9, 1998 All Things Considered (entire program) Requires the RealAudio Player

An index of the day's stories:

Kosovo Protests -- NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Pristina, Yugoslavia, where tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians marched in protest today. (4:00)

Kosovo Commentary -- NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that multilateral action in Kosovo will prove difficult. It simply underlines the view that it has become virtually impossible for Western powers to mediate conflicts that do not cross borders. (3:30)

Trent Lott and Kenneth Starr -- Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told reporters today that President Clinton needs to tell the American people the truth about the Monica Lewinsky matter, and that the White House should stop trying to smear independent counsel Kenneth Starr. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports. (4:00)

Russian Politics on TV -- NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow that even though the campaign for the Russian presidency is still two years away, candidates have already begun jockeying to position themselves to be at the front of the pack. They can't yet announce their candidacies, but they have learned to raise their profiles. (3:30)

Au Pair Hearing -- NPR's Tovia Smith reports on today's arguments before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the case of British au pair Louise Woodward. (4:00)

New Jersey Baby Death -- All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talks with reporter Matthew Futterman of the Star Ledger newspaper, about developments in the trials of two New Jersey teenagers who dumped their baby in a trash bin outside a Newark motel in November 1996. (4:00)

Pinochet to Retire -- Marie-Armelle Lafaury reports from Santiago that General Augusto Pinochet will step down tomorrow as head of Chile's army. The former dictator will remain a public figure, however. Before handing over power in 1990, Pinochet re-wrote the constitution so that he would become Chile's first senator-for-life after retiring from the army. This item is unavailable due to copyright issues.

Paralympics -- NPR's Tom Goldman reports that the Winter Paralympic Games are currently being held in Nagano, Japan in relative obscurity, unlike two years ago when the Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta received unprecedented publicity, with some of the events broadcast on network television. (6:30)

Clinton Speaks to AMA -- President Clinton called on the American Medical Association today to stand up for patients' rights. Mr. Clinton asked the AMA to lobby for the Patients' Bill of Rights that he has sent to Congress. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. (4:30)

Minnesota Tobacco Trial -- Elizabeth Stawicki of Minnesota Public Radio reports a Minnesota appeals court has stayed a judge's order to the tobacco industry to turn over secret industry documents to the State of Minnesota. Over the weekend, a Minnesota judge ruled that the industry could not shield the 39,000 pages of documents by claiming attorney-client privilege. (3:00)

Kuwait Book Fair -- NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Kuwait that the country's Minister of Information has been attacked for allowing books that have been officially banned by the government to appear at a recent book fair. (5:00)

Pouring Rights -- More universities are now seeking new funding sources to offset funds lost as state subsidies shrink. A significant number of them are taking a cue from major sports league franchises: they're signing long-term deals that give companies such as PepsiCo and Coca-Cola the exclusive right to sell soft drinks -- and even snacks -- on campus. This item is unavailable due to copyright issues.

Deceptive Domain Names -- Commentator Larry Magid talks about the growing number of pornographic Web sites that use names like "whitehouse.com" (the official White House Web site is "whitehouse.gov") to trick people into visiting the sites. Magid says that this is especially troubling because these are sites that children might easily stumble onto. (3:00)

Brock's Letter -- NPR's Steve Inskeep reports that journalist David Brock says he regrets having written a 1993 story featured in The American Spectator magazine, which sparked the Paula Jones lawsuit against President Clinton and the current investigation into the President's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. (3:30)

Suharto and the IMF -- NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that Indonesian President Suharto's re-election tomorrow to a seventh five-year term is guaranteed, but the future of his government is increasingly uncertain. Suharto is in a standoff with the International Monetary Fund over his handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades. (8:30)

Kalimantaan -- Reviewer Alan Cheuse says that a new work of fiction by C.S. Godshalk called "Kalimantaan" is as lush and exotic as its setting -- nineteenth-century Borneo. (2:30)

Filming Everest -- All Things Considered host Noah talks with filmmaker David Breashears, who took an IMAX camera to the top of Mount Everest last year. While making a movie that would give audiences a spectacular, panoramic look at the top of the world, the moviemaking team also chronicled one of the most notorious mountaineering disasters in recent history.
(NOTE: David Breashears' IMAX film Everest premiered on Friday at the IMAX theatre in New York City, and will open at the nation's sixty other IMAX theatres later this spring. To find a location near you, check on the World Wide Web at www.macfreefilms.com ) (7:45)