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NPR's David Molpus visits a community near Fayetteville, North Carolina, a place where some 1,000 retired Green Berets live. Molpus says these men, who gained fame during the Vietnam war, are still trying to cope with the war and its aftermath.

Writer TERRY MCMILLAN. Her novel, Waiting to Exhale (Viking) has been made into a movie. It opens this week in selected theaters. It's about four strong, urban, black women in their thirties, their successful careers, and their sometimes volatile relationships with black men. She says women -- both black and white -- are frustrated because they can't find a man who's willing to commit, and won't lie or cheat. Her previous novels are Mama and Disappearing Acts. (Rebroadcast from June,

DAVID WELNA REPORTS THAT THE BUDGET IMPASSE IN WASHINGTON IS HITTING MEXICAN CITIZENS...WHO CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY U.S. GOVERNMENT VISA OFFICES IN THEIR COUNTRY WON'T OPEN AND PERMIT THEM TO VISIT THEIR U.S. RELATIVES DURING THE HOLIDAYS.

NPR'S PETER OVERBY REPORTS ON THE NEW SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTED IN THE NEWT GINGRICH ETHICS CASE

Former three-term Governor for New York State MARIO CUOMO and one of the Democratic party's most respected spokesperson. Since losing office in the 1994 republican-landslide election, CUOMO has started his own nationally syndicated radio show. His new book, Reason to Believe (Simon & Schuster) is his critique of the Republican's Contract with America.

SCOTT REMEMBERS JOURNALIST JAMES RESTON WHO DIED THIS WEEK.

Maryland Congressman Kweisi Mfume (kwah-EE-see em-FOO-may) as been named to head the National Association for the Advancement of Colored eople, the nation's oldest, largest and most troubled civil rights rganization.

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ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS REVIEWS THE FILM "GET SHORTY" STARRING JOHN TRAVOLTA AND DANNY DEVITO.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Brown Sugar" (EMI label) the debut album by the singer named D''Angelo and "R. Kelly" (Jive records) by the rapper R. Kelly. Both are R&B albums.

Jon Miller reports from Manila on the political comeback of former Phillipine First Lady Imelda Marcos. Mrs. Marcos was convicted 2 years ago on corruption charges. But she is out on bail while appealing her conviction. And in the meantime she's been elected to the Philippine House of Representatives. It's the first step in what she and many supporters hope is the path back to the Presidential palace she fled in disgrace nearly a decade ago.