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a million Rwandan refugees. The abrupt return has raised doubts among members of the multinational peace force for Zaire about the need for military intervention.

Noah Adams talks with two nuclear warfare experts about the significance of a statement signed by 60 retired military officers around the world, which calls for the virtual elimination of nuclear weapons. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired, is deputy director of the Center for Defense Information. From 1955 until 1980, he was responsible for planning and training for nuclear warfare. In the 1980s, as Director of Operations for U.S. forces in Europe and the Middle East, Carroll was responsible for 7,000 nuclear weapons. He signed the statement. Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. As part of the Reagan administration, he was responsible for negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms. Perle, who didn't sign the statement, says it's dangerous for the U.S. to get rid of all its nuclear weapons.

Noah talks to Allan Pedersen, who runs a hotdog stand called McAllan in Jutland, Denmark. Pedersen was sued by McDonald's for copyright infringement for using the "Mc" prefix on the name of his business. Denmark's Supreme Court ruled that he did not infringe upon McDonald's right to the prefix. This is one of several trademark lawsuits McDonald's has brought against other businesses worldwide.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that it is not easy for people to immigrate legally to the United States, as the case of two sisters from the Philippines shows. More than a half million Filipinos are waiting to join relatives in the States, but that wait can take decades.

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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Recovering the Satellites" (Geffen) the new album by the San Francisco Band, Counting Crows.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade that the government of President Slobodan Milosevic is moving to keep the protests against his regime from spreading. Two independent radio stations knocked off the air earlier this week are operating again. The election commission is appealing the annulment of the elections that started all the protests. And the government is promising to pay retirement pensions that should have been sent out in October.

NPR's John Ydstie looks at the realities behind some of the economic claims and counter-claims in last night's presidential debate. Contender Bob Dole went to great lengths to persuade listeners that the American economy is worse off under President Clinton, while the President stressed what he portrayed as the economic upturn over the past four years.

3: Film director PHILIP HAAS. His movie is "Angels & Insects" based on the novella "Morpho Eugenia" by writer A.S. Byatt has been released on video Previously, HAAS made his feature film debut with "The Music of Chance," adapted from a Paul Auster novel.

some parents in Southern California into keeping their kids indoors on Halloween.

this year, lots of people decided to stay away from the office for the whole week.