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Liane Hansen speaks with David Culhane in Paris about the trike by public workers which is entering its third week. The strikes are in rotest of planned changes to France's social security system.

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Liane Hansen speaks with Jay Shelledy, editor of the Salt Lake ribune, about Utah Republican congresswoman Enid Waldholtz and her financial roubles. A poll in this morning's Tribune shows most of Waldholtz's support mong voters eroding.

Susan talks with disappointed tourists who came to Washington D.C. hoping to do a little sightseeing and instead got the closed door treatment due to the federal shutdown.

There are elections in two far flung countries today...a parliamentary vote in Russia...and a presidential vote in Haiti. Susan talks about the voting first with NPR's Ann Garrels in Moscow, and then with NPR's David Welna in Port au Prince.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH IRA LIPMAN. IN 1957, AS A HIGH-SCHOOL SENIOR, MR. LIPMAN WAS THE PRIME SOURCE FOR JOHN CHANCELLOR, WHEN HE WAS REPORTING ON THE FEDERALLY-ORDERED INTEGRATION OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. THEY MET AGAIN THIS WEEK WHEN MR. LIPMAN UNDERWROTE AN AWARD IN JOHN CHANCELLOR'S NAME FOR THE U-PENN'S ANNENBERG PUBLIC POLICY CENTER.

" SCOTT SPEAKS WITH ANANT SINGH, THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRODUCER OF A NEW FILM ADAPTATION OF THE CLASSIC NOVEL OF SOUTH AFRICA BY ALAN PATON.

Storyteller Jay O'Callahan reminds us that today is the 222nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. On that day in 1773, colonists threw into Boston Harbor a shipload of tea which King George of England was trying to force down their throat.

NPR'S DAVID WELNA SETS UP TOMORROW'S ELECTION IN HAITI, WHERE THE CANDIDATE OF PRESIDENT JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE'S LAVALAS MOVEMENT IS, NOT SURPRISINGLY, THE OVERWHELMING FAVORITE -- BUT WHERE OTHER PROBLEMS, INCLUDING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S., ARE AN UNDERCURRENT TO THE CAMPAIGN.