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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that President Clinton has agreed in principle to contribute as many as several thousand US troops to a proposed multinational effort to get food and medicine to about a million refugees in eastern Zaire. A White House spokesman said that once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire, helping provide security at a key airport and along special corridors set up to get aid to the mostly Rwandan refugees cut off by recent fighting. The spokesman said most of the US forces would be outside of Zaire, acting in support of the aid operation.

Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term. Latina challenger Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that it was absentee ballots and a strong Latino vote that overturned the fiery conservative in his equally conservative Orange County, California. Dornan is threatening to challenge the results, claiming that Democrats may have signed up ineligible immigrant voters.

local volunteers to "get out the vote." They have assumed a particular importance in Florida -- the fourth largest state -- which polls say could go either way.

Noah talks with pollster Andy Kohut about voter turnout, and who is actually voting and who is not.

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of campaigning. He travels to Ohio and Pennsylvania today.

Secret Service logs show that John Huang, the Democratic fund-raiser at the center of a growing controversy over foreign political donations, visited the White House more than 60 times this year. The records did not show what Huang's business was at the White House, but they indicate he was a much more frequent visitor than the White House has acknowledged previously. News of Huang's visits is prompting Republican demands for President Clinton to explain what Huang was doing there. Critics have questioned whether Huang's repeated presence in the White House violated conflict-of-interest laws. Phillip Davis has a report.

It has been four months since Turkey's Islamist-led government came into office on a fiery rhetorical platform of Islamizing the country's traditionally secular government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that little has changed in Turkey's westward-leaning policies, raising questions whether the Islamicists have any hope of implementing their fundamentalist agenda.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich is facing calls for him to step aside because of his unpopularity with the general public. Some of his problems stem from the conservative agenda, others from ethics charges. Even among his usual supporters, some GOP congressmen say Gingrich should step aside as Speaker for the good of the agenda. But NPR's Brian Naylor reports Gingrich still has many congressmen behind him, and is likely to be reelected Speaker next week when House Republicans meet to elect their leaders.

a steady downturn in the rate of death from cancer in the United States since 1991. The decline is being attributed to a reduction in smoking, earlier cancer detection, and improved treatments.

which is putting three Martian meteorites on sale later this month .

This week's "voices in the news" features voters in rizona who participated in an election forum. The topic of conversation was the one of this year's campaign advertising, and was sponsored by KJZZ in Phoenix nd the NPR Election Project.