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tour in support of Republican Congressmen. Despite low public approval numbers, Gingrich has drawn large crowds both supporters and protesters. And his appearances have helped raise lots of campaign money for Republican incumbents.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the allied military campaign to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nearly five years after the end of the military conflict, United Nations sanctions against Iraq remain in place. NPR's Sunni Khalid visited Baghdad to see the effects of the sanctions on the people in the city and found that the economy has declined considerably in the past five years. Food prices have skyrocketed, the education system has declined, and the hospital system is short of supplies and medicines.

A former presidential aide testified before a House committee today about some notes he wrote in 1993 regarding the firings of White House travel office employees. The notes mention conversations in which third parties told the witness that Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted the employees fired. Mrs Clinton has said she did not direct any dismissals, and NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the witness testified that she did not tell him to fire them.

Linguist Hugh Matthews tells Noah Adams about mourning for who may have been the last known speaker of the Catawba Indian language. He recounts the years he spent with Red Thunder Cloud, a colorful person known at tribal gatherings for his dances, songs, and stories.

INDIA'S TEST-FIRING TODAY OF A NEW VERSION OF ONE OF ITS BALLISTIC MISSILES IS PART OF A DANGEROUS MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC PUZZLE INVOLVING HIGH TENSIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN, PLUS U.S. RELATIONS WITH THOSE TWO COUNTRIES AND CHINA. TED CLARK REPORTS.

SANDY TOLAN REPORTS ON REACTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST TO THE REINTRODUCTION OF WOLVES TO THE REGION'S WILDERNESS. TO RESIDENTS, IT'S HARDLY AS SIMPLE AS RANCHERS-VERSUS-ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on beads and the way humans have doted, decorated, collected, traded, interpreted, identified, sold and bought with beads through the ages. It's said that beads are the second-oldest form of commerce known to mankind.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, pledged today that there will not be another government shutdown later this month...when current funding to run the government is due to expire.

Commentator Lenny Kleinfeld lives in Los Angeles, where is has NOT been snowing. All the talk of the blizzard on the East Coast has him more than a little homesick for bad weather of the old-fashioned type.