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that suggest the Republicans will retain their numbers in the House and Senate.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "First Band on the Moon" by the Cardigans, an alternative rock band from Sweden (Mercury Records).

Steven LaFon is the Associate Director of the Anti-Viral Clinical research for Glaxo-Wellcome. He says he empathizes with Getty, and that the company's researchers are working as fast as they can to get the drug 15-92 to the marketplace. He says although the results of trials have been very encouraging, it is still in the very early stages of the approval and marketing process.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from St. Petersburg, Florida - the site of two riots this fall. The city's racial divisions are deep and long-lived. Citizens in the city's black community fear the police; white residents say they don't understand the black community's frustrations.

1: Photographer JOHN DUGDALE is joined by psychotherapist ROBERT LEVITHAN to talk about a new class of AIDS fighting drugs. Both men have the AIDS virus but are being treated with a new class of drugs that have enhanced the quality of their health and lives. They are receiving protease inhibitors which have the effect of blocking an enzyme crucial to the life cycle of of the AIDS virus. These drugs are considered the most significant breakthrough in the fight against AIDS since the epidemic began. JOHN DUGDALE is a New York photographer who lost more than 75 percent of his vision to an AIDS related condition. But he continues to work as a photographer saying that he uses the fuzzy gray images that he sees as his guide. His photographs are collected in the recent book "Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall" (Twin Palms Publishing) ROBERT LEVITHAN (lev-eh-than) is a New York psychotherapist who primarly counsels people with AIDS. He also conducts workshops called "out living AIDS" for those with AIDS who are living longer than expected. He is currently writing a book about that is expected to be called "Outliving Myself."

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN gives us her Holiday picks for the best books to buy as presents: "Angela''s Ashes" by Frank McCourt (Scribner) "Great Books" by David Denby (Simon & Schuster)"Committed to Memory," a collection of 100 best poems in English, edited by John Hollander"Life As We Know It" by Michael Berube (Pantheon)"Mason''s Retreat" by Christopher Tilghman"Derby Dugan''s Depression Funnies" by Tom DeHaven"A Letter From Mary" by Laurie R. King.

On the day before the Presidential election, senior news analyst Daniel Schorr sums up some of the lessons learned from this campaign season.

acquittal has forced LA District Attorney Gil Garcetti into a controversial campaign for re-election.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Kigali that Zairean Tutsi rebels today declared a unilateral three-week ceasefire. The guerrillas say the truce is designed to give more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire a chance to go home. In the past two weeks, the rebels have captured all of the main cities along Zaire's border with Burundi and Rwanda, and foreign relief agencies have evacuated their staffs. There is little hope the refugees will return to Tutsi-controlled Rwanda, and relief groups say shortages of food and medicine could soon lead to mass starvation and epidemics among the refugees.

Kofi Annan, a career diplomat from Ghana, was chosen by the U-N's Security Council to be the international body's next Secretary General. NPR's Ann Cooper reports.

Commentator Marion Winik struggles with how to talk to her kids about drugs. Since drugs were a big part of her life and her husband Tony struggled with them until the day he died, she feels she can not simply counsel her children to "just say no".

RUSSIAN HEALTH CLUBS: Reporter Tom Whitehouse takes a look at the xpanding number of fitness clubs in Moscow. Traditionally one of the least ealthy of the industrialized nations, Russia has lately been thinking more bout fitness and health.