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Commentator Jacob Weisberg wonders about the latest category of crucial swing voters- "soccer moms." He says this categorization of some women is as misleading as the "angry white male" voter from the 1994 election. If you define these women as suburban and professional, they do lean toward Clinton--but this year, it's the men that are actually more fickle and likely to make up the "swing vote."

John Parker was a slave, an abolitionist and a businessman. Recently, his memoirs were discovered and published, providing a vivid account of this remarkable man's life. Actor Mississippi Charles Bevel reads excerpts from Parker's book.

Congressional and White House budget negotiators are close to agreement on a plan to balance the budget by 2002. However, Democratic congressional leaders have raised concerns that proposed spending cuts are too deep and that proposed tax cuts are too great. The White House says President Clinton won't sign on until a majority of Democrats are on board. Negotiations were expected to go all day long. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

with the federal assistance program to help out people affected by the storms.

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NPR's Edward Lifson in Serbia reports that tens of thousands of Opposition demonstrators tonight walked to the central cathedral in Belgrade. Led by Serbian priests and Opposition leaders, they're celebrating Christmas Eve according to Serbian Christian Orthodox calendar.

Philadelphia Inquirer reporter JEFFREY FLEISHMAN. He recently traveled across the Himalayan Mountains with a group of Buddhist monks and nuns, who were fleeing from persecution by the Communist Chinese government in Tibet. Some of them had been imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese. If caught, they would be sent back to prison and tortured. During their 14-day trek they experienced frost-bite, snow blindness, oxygen-then air, pain, and hunger. FLEISHMAN's story appeared in the Inquirer Magazine section, December 15, 1996.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Clinton administration has backed itself into a corner with its objection (born of the presidential campaign) to the reelection of Boutros Boutros-Ghali as Secretary General of the United Nations.

Leon Panetta about changes in the cabinet President Clinton may make and what's in store for the second term of the Clinton administration.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the victory of Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, giving her a House seat from New York state. McCarthy was widowed after the Long Island Railroad shootings, and defeated incumbent Republican freshman Daniel Frisa after he voted to repeal an assault weapons ban.

Junot Diaz is a young writer who was born in the Dominican Republic. He was raised there, but also in New Jersey, and he has just published a collection of stories about growing up on his old home island and in the U.S. The book is called Drown.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says former Secretary f State Henry Kissinger is unfairly chiding the Clinton administration for bandoning the Kurdish people of Iraq.