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NPR's Ina Jaffe reports the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has found NO link between the introduction of crack cocaine and CIA support of contra rebels in the 1980's. The Department was investigating charges first raised in a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News, saying that the CIA had supported contras who were involved in the crack trade. The sheriffs spent 2 months investigating the charges.

will change how the sport does business. The five-year labor agreement was ratified last week by the players. It includes a revenue sharing system and a luxury tax imposed on the five richest teams.

since the election. Speaking to Democratic leaders, he emphasized his new centrist stance.

It employs technology that General Motors accuses one of its former top executive of stealing, when he went to work for V.W. in 1993. Jose Lopez insists the idea for the plant at Resende, Brazil, is entirely his own.

The FBI is sifting through thousands of new tips, looking for evidence pertaining to the Olympic bombing investigation. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that the agency is pleased with the response generated by the agency's announcement earlier this week that a reward would be given to anyone helping to solve the crime.

Congressman Wes Cooley was indicted for making false statements about his military record in Oregon state voters' pamphlets. The indictment says that congressman - who was elected in 1994 and didn't run again this year - lied when he said that he was a member of the Army Special Forces in Korea. From Portland, Colin Fogarty reports.

General Barry McCaffrey, wrapped up two days of talks in Mexico City yesterday. The U.S. officials and their Mexican counterparts promised stepped-up efforts to stem the flow of narcotics across the border.

Bill Daley, President Clinton's nominee for the nation's new commerce secretary, is known for his Democratic fundraising talents...and his ability to cross party lines for support. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Daley's hometown of Chicago.

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For the second straight day, a river of Rwandan refugees is flowing out of eastern Zaire and returning to their homeland after two miserable years of exile in camps along the border. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the refugees, mostly ethnic Hutus, no longer seem afraid to live under the rival Tutsi-led government, and government authorities are welcoming their countrymen back home.

2: Writer MICHAEL BERUBE (pronounced "BEAR-ru-bay"). He's written for The New Yorker and The Village Voice. He's a professor of English at the University of Ilinois and is the author of the new book, "Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child," (Pantheon Books) about the birth of his son in 1991, Jamie, who has Down syndrome, and how that has affected their life. BERUBE writes in the introduction, "individual humans like James are compelling us daily to determine what kind of 'individuality' we will value, on what terms, and why."

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a series of live recordings by the Budapest Quartet made at the Library of Congress in the early 1950s (Bridge Records).