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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that there exist three potential hot spots in the world that, if they erupted, could hamper President Clinton's re-election bid--Israel, Russia and Bosnia.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on two federal HMO programs for the elderly. People who join get not just medical care - they also receive social supports like home nursing aides -- but members are limited to the health care providers in the HMOs. The goal is to keep people as healthy as possible as long as possible while holding down costs. So far, at least, there are few complaints about the programs.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on MSNBC -- the new 24-hour cable news channel that offers CNN its first-ever direct competition. Despite 16-years of bad press, low ratings and slow profits, CNN is thriving in its niche market -- upscale, middle-aged, news junkies. MSNBC hopes to lure chunks of that audience away with round-the-clock timeliness and 24-hour linkage to an expansive internet website. The other networks will be watching closely to see how much slicing the 24-hour news market can bear.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Jerry Horton, the superintendent for the North Pontotoc [PAWN-uh-tawk] School District in Ecru, Mississippi. He pledges to keep some religion in the area's public schools, despite a federal court ruling against the district's practice of broadcasting prayers and Bible classes over the intercom system.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that the Arab world is beginning to assess the potential damage to the peace process in the wake of last week's Israeli elections. At the meeting in Aqaba (AH-kuh-bah), Jordan, leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority called for Israel to continue the peace process.

President Clinton has chosen a new chief of Naval Operations to replace Admiral Mike Boorda, who committed suicide last month. The president is nominating Admiral Jay Johnson, who has been the Navy's number-two officer for the past few months. NPR's Martha Raddatz has more on Johnson's career.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that in the United States, the USDA is instituting a new system aimed at increasing the safety of meat and poultry. Currently, inspectors rely on literally touching, smelling and looking at meat to determine whether it has been contaminated. Under the new system, scientific tests would be used to detect E-Coli and other microbes, and meat processors would be required to identify ways meat could become tainted, and take steps to prevent it from happening.

Reform Party presidential candidates Richard Lamm and Ross Perot will appear together this weekend at the Maine and Virginia Reform Party conventions. The two will face off at the party's national convention next month, but are currently courting party members to put their names on a nominating ballot due next week. Ballots have been sent out to more than one million people who signed petitions to put the party on state ballots around the country. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast that the police in Northern Ireland today changed their minds and allowed a Protestant fraternal group of marchers to parade through a Catholic neighborhood. To clear the way for the marchers, police dragged off a group of Catholics who were sitting in the middle of the road to protest the march.

Linda talks to Officer Richard Troen (TROW-ehn), a member of the bomb technician squad of the Washington D.C. police. He says that pipe bombs are the most common type of bomb because they are simple and faily inexpensive to make.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says the guilt of finding good child care can get intolerable...she thinks of all the high level execs that have left their jobs to spend more time with their families---they aren't satisfied with having anyone else but themselves take care of their kids.

He directed nearly 80 films, including "Wings," which won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture; "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda; and "The Public Enemy," which launched Jimmy Cagney's career. He also co-wrote and directed the original, 1937 version of "A Star is Born." Yet no-one outside of film circles remembers William Wellman's name. That's why his son has produced a documentary that's screening theatrically (at AFI on 7/31) and will air on TNT in August (8/13). Ken Bader, of member station WBUR reports.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica where one year ago today, the Bosnian Serb army over-ran the United Nations safe-area. During the next three days, thousands of Muslim men and boys disappeared. Now, Srebrenica is flooded with Serbs. They are refugees from Sarajevo and other areas that have been turned over to the Bosnian-Croat Federation.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that for the first time scientists have identified a gene that is involved in a particular kind of thinking. In tomorrow's issue of the journal Cell, researchers report that they identified a gene that appears to play a role in the ability to envision things in three dimensions.

- NPR's David Molpus reports from Atlanta on authorities search for suspects in the pipe bomb explosion at the Olympic village early Saturday morning.

- Daniel talks with Harvard professor Howard Gardner about his theories of multiple intelligences. Included among them is what he terms "athletic" or "bodily kinesthetic" intelligence. He says that this kind of intelligence is just as "smart" as the intelligence of a surgeon. Gardner also says that athletes combine athletic intelligence with other kinds of intelligence such as musical, spacial, and personal intelligence. (Gardner is the author of many books including, "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" HarperCollins/Basic Books,1983)

- Daniel visits the Forensic Documents Lab at the U-S Immigration and Naturalization Service. Analysts in the lab use high tech equipment to study questionable immigration documents. They are specialists in detecting counterfeit techniques, including alterations impossible to detect with the naked eye. The Atlanta Committee on the Olympic Games asked the lab to design the Olympic visa which has numerous security features.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast, Northern Ireland, that police in the province are preparing for another night of violence. This is the time of year when a Protestant group called the Orange Order stages parades to commemorate victories against Catholics more than 300 years ago. The Protestants began rioting when police blocked them from parading through one Catholic area. The rioting has spread to other parts of the province.(3:30) 2B CUTAWAY 0:59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 16. THREE-DRUG TREATMENT & AFRICA -- The international AIDS conference in Vancouver has featured some good news about treatments for AIDS that combine several anti-AIDS drugs in order to suppress the virus. However, the cost of this kind of treatment is prohibitive for people living in some of the poorer countries of the world. Linda talks with Dr. Georgette Adjorololo (AH-jorr-oh- LOH-loh), a delegate to the International AIDS Conference from the Ivory Coast, about the problems facing developing nations as they try to stop the spread of AIDS.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that state- sponsored terrorism was the talk of Washington yesterday, both on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

Noah has information on Hurricane Bertha, which has prompted an evacuation order along the nation's southeastern coast.