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Pakistan about the president's decision to dismiss Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on charges of widespread corruption and political cronyism.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin is recuperating from a seven-hour heart bypass operation. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on what this period of recovery will mean for President Yeltsin and Russia.

the latest in the investigation of yesterday's mid-air collision between two airliners over Delhi.

is moving closer towards creating a multinational force to enter Zaire to oversee the refugee crisis, but many obstacles still remain.

For the past two weeks, NPR's Mike Shuster has been travelling through the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, following the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road... from Iran through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and now Tadjikistan, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 1992. He spoke with Robert Siegel from the town of Garm, about 100 miles east of Tadjikistan's capital, Dushanbe. He says that the people in Garm are proud of their new-found independence, but are struggling to rebuild a city that has essentially collapsed with the departure of the Soviets and a four year civil war.

victory over Governor William Weld.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has found NO link between the introduction of crack cocaine and CIA support of contra rebels in the 1980's. The Department was investigating charges first raised in a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News, saying that the CIA had supported contras who were involved in the crack trade. The sheriffs spent 2 months investigating the charges.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that with all the fuss about the revised Consumer Price Index and the effect it will have on social security recipients, no one seems to have noticed that the welfare reform bill will plunge many more of our nation's children into much deeper poverty.

Noah talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about conditions in the eastern Zairean city of Goma, recently captured by Zairean Tutsi rebels. The rebels escorted foreign journalists into the city today. The city is for the most part calm, though reporters were only allowed to see certain areas. Goma is the site of camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; the battle for the city left the refugees cut off from food and medicine.

Noah talks with Ethan James, former rock musician and punk rock producer, now a passionate hurdy-gurdy player. He has just put out his first CD featuring the hurdy-gurdy. It's called "The Ancient Music of Christmas." James brings two hurdy-gurdies into the studio - one he made himself, and the other from Hungary. He demonstrates how they sound and describes what they look like.