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Noah talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about conditions in the eastern Zairean city of Goma, recently captured by Zairean Tutsi rebels. The rebels escorted foreign journalists into the city today. The city is for the most part calm, though reporters were only allowed to see certain areas. Goma is the site of camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; the battle for the city left the refugees cut off from food and medicine.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the United States seems to have shirked its role as world peacekeeper lately, and thus diminished its role as the one remaining superpower.

Commentator Kevin Kling tells a story about the time he decided it was time to get a bike. Not a bicycle...a MOTORcycle. He takes his motorcycle out with some more experienced riders...which is to say, a bunch of bikers...and begins to find out what he's made of.

whether he'll keep U.S. troops in Bosnia as part of a new NATO peacekeeping mission. Last year, the President promised to limit U.S. participation in Bosnia to twelve months, but all indications say the President will order American troops to be a part of the new force.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the fighting in Zaire.

A handful of nonprofit companies, mostly church-based, are challenging holiday shoppers to give money that will buy practical gifts to help needy people in developing countries. They ask Americans: 'instead of buying for the person who has everything, why not buy for the family that has nothing?' For more information...Alternative Gifts International 800-842-2243; Serve International 800-723-3712; World Concern 800-755-5022; Heifer Project International 800-422-0474; American Friends Service 888-588-2372

President Clinton has nominated for his national security team in his second term and the issues they will confront.

chains of private, for-profit schools, two companies are waiting for a second chance. This time they've got a more modest, low-key plan.

It's been five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union but it will take many more years to undue much of the ecological damage done during Soviet rule. Case in point: one of the greatest environmental disasters in the world today is the drying up of the Aral Sea in central Asia. In the 1950s, when the Soviets decided to increase their cotton crop, two rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were used to irrigate the cotton fields of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan; the flow of water to the Aral Sea was reduced by ninety percent with disasterous results. NPR's Mike Shuster visits an Uzbek town that used to one of the Aral Sea's biggest ports--now the sea is thirty miles away and the town of Mujnak (Moy-NAHK) is plagued by both massive unemployment and serious health problems brought on by the Aral's demise.

The Supreme Court heard two cases today dealing with voting districts and their impact on minority voter rights and the prospects for minority candidates. One case was an appeal of a congressional map in Georgia drawn up by a three-judge panel after the Supreme Court declared an earlier plan unconstitutional. The other case relates to school board districts in Louisiana. Some opponents of districts designed to give minorities a boost argue that the re-election of a number of African-American members of Congress last month, despite their white-majority districts, proves special districts are not needed. Proponents argue that they were helped more by the advantages of incumbancy, and needed minority-majority districts to get elected in the first place. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr looks at the history of residential pardons. 3:30

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including President Clinton on Bosnia, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. adeline Albright on Zaire, an unidentified pilot decribing last week's ollision by two planes in India, Jesse Jackson and an unidentified motorist on he Texaco boycott, and the late Joseph Cardinal Bernadin revealing the illness hat led to his death last week.