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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says a film about the life f Anita Hill was shelved due to pressure from the production company's parent orporation over worries about objections from Supreme Court Justice Clarence homas. 2:50

about the implications for Moscow of last night's crash of its Mars probe into the Pacific ocean.

Scott bids a fond farewell to departing Senior Producer Cindy Carpien.

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that they plan to join forces to create by far the world's largest aircraft maker. The new company will emerge in mid-1997, if stockholders and government regulators approve of the merger.

in a sexual harassment case brought by some of its female employees. The court has ordered that all documents pertaining to the lawsuit be unsealed, ruling that the public has a right to know what happened, as long as the privacy of those accused is protected.

and opponents over a researcher's findings on concealed weapon laws. The study says that the 31 states allowing its citizens to carry concealed guns have a decreased rate of violent crimes.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that President Clinton has agreed in principle to contribute as many as several thousand US troops to a proposed multinational effort to get food and medicine to about a million refugees in eastern Zaire. A White House spokesman said that once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire, helping provide security at a key airport and along special corridors set up to get aid to the mostly Rwandan refugees cut off by recent fighting. The spokesman said most of the US forces would be outside of Zaire, acting in support of the aid operation.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Goma, Zaire that shelling forced the suspension of the first attempt to deliver aid to the city today. Relief groups stopped passing out food after four shells slammed into the city. The shells presumably were fired by Rwandan Hutu rebels holed up in a refugee camp outside Goma. The attack came after Zairean Tutsi rebels--who control Goma--fired on an unidentified plane which flew over the city. The incidents underline how hard it will be to organize a massive aid effort for the one million mostly Rwandan refugees stranded by the recent fighting in eastern Zaire.

is undergoing heart by-pass surgery.