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Commentator Donald McCaig tells the story of "Uncle Peewee" - a 97 year old man - who died recently. For the people of Williamsville, West Virginia, it was the loss of their last nineteenth-century man.

The BBC's Julian Isherwood reports from Denmark that six members of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang have gone to trial, charged with the murder of a member of a rival gang. The killing is part of a feud between motorcycle gangs that has been plaguing all of Scandinavia for the last two years.

about why economic cooperation between Israel and the Arabs has been slow to develop.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that some customers of Avis say the company wouldn't rent them cars because they're black. A class action suit was filed against a North Carolina franchise of Avis for racial discrimination. Some former employees have also joined the suit.

Robert talks to Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, about possible political ends to the crisis in Zaire. Vansina says that the difficult problem to resolve is how to return Hutu refugees to a Rwanda ruled by Tutsis...who may very well exact some kind of retribution agains the returning refugees.

is causing problems for local telephone companies, and their customers. The telephone networks were designed for relatively short voice communication, not the lengthy data transfers common on the internet. The local phone companies have complained to the FCC that the internet access providers should be treated just like long-distance carriers.

He developed a new line of stories for Batman aimed at helping children in war-torn countries learn the dangers of landmines that are used so indiscriminately around the globe.

will react to the new Bosnian mandate.

and won't hear any criticism of them.

the former Soviet Central Asia for business and political influence. Trying to sidestep the US-inspired trade boycott, Iran is building a railroad into the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan in an effort to channel trade from the region through its Persian Gulf ports.