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on the refugee situation in Rwanda and Zaire.

around the globe in trying to re-write their computer software before the year 2000.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta eports on a hotly contested race in the newly-created 4th district. Incumbent emocrat/African-American Cynthia McKinney won the seat in 1992 when the ongressional district was 60-percent black. As a result of a Supreme Court uling on redistricting last year, there are no longer any majority-black istricts. Now, she and her opponent, moderate Republican John Mitnick, are ying for votes in one of the most diverse districts in the country.

Ina Jaffe reports on a ghoulish store Los Angeles. Necromance is its name, and it specializes in bones, heads and organs of all kinds of animals - including people.

Defense Secretary William Perry said today the U-S has not yet determined who was responsible for the June 25 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. airmen. "We have reached no conclusions about who was responsible for this," Perry told reporters in response to questions about Washington Post report that Saudi authorities had arrested 40 people and were convinced that Iran backed a broad conspiracy in the attack. NPR's Martha Raddatz has a report.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with Susan Tolchin, author of "The Angry American" and professor of Public Administration at George Washington University, and Susan Carrol, senior research associate at the Center for theAmerican Woman and Politics at Rutgers University about the gender gap in this year's presidential election.

- Daniels talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Kigali, Rwanda about the escalating turmoil in Zaire. Fierce gunfighting in the town of Goma, forced international aid workers to flee the area today leaving some one million refugees without adequate food or water.

Noah talks with Don Gonyea in Detroit, Michigan about the latest charges being filed against Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian was charged today with nineteen criminal counts in conjunction with ten assisted suicides that have taken place since June.

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Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new Baz Luhrmann film, "Romeo and Juliet." The script is faithful to the language of the Shakespeare play...the characters all speak in Elizabethan English...but the setting has been moved to the present-day. Mondello says that the imagery and use of modern sets is somewhat discordant and unsettling, but that the story has lost none of its power.

In honor of Veterans' Day, President Clinton speaks at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Commentator Doug Bradley talks about his private ritual of rereading his letters and journals from Vietnam. They help him bridge the gap between his father's experiences from WWII and his own experiences from a more recent war.

46-year long civil war can be ended on December 29th, as scheduled. Guatemala's government and a coalition of leftist rebels have agreed to meet on that date in Guatemala City and sign a peace accord. Preparations are being delayed by both sides.