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The strategically important nation has been ruled by one man for the past 30 years, but President Suharto, is now 75, and recent rumors of his ill health are affecting the country's financial strength.

a former director at the National Transportation Safety Board, about how the agency is handling the inquiry...

to stop the wave of arson striking black churches across the South. Yesterday,President Clinton hosted governors from seven Southern States to discuss the matter. And both houses in Congress are moving to make it easier to prosecute those who set churches on fire.

will win renomination in the Senate today despite opposition from a couple of Democrats.

Reporter Melissa Block on Long Island, N.Y. tells Noah Adams about the reaction of people in the Moriches, some of whom witnessed the explosion of the TWA plane that crashed last night.

Religious and charitable leaders held a news conference this morning... hours before the House vote on the G-O-P welfare reform bill. They voiced their opposition to the current package, calling it "immoral" and saying it will push "1-million more" children into poverty. The coalition of groups wants President Clinton to veto the measure if it makes it through Congress in current form. Many of the groups represented at today's news conference operate assistance and feeding programs that receive federal money.

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.

Africa's newest nation. Eritrea defeated the occupying Ethiopian forces in 1993 despite being heavily outnumbered. Now the new country surges with music and images that valorizes their struggle for independence.

at the Reverend Martin Luther King's former church for the victims of the Atlanta bombing.

of Atlanta's Centennial Park this morning after being closed three days following Saturday's bomb.

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.

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