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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the United States is alarmed at the escalating fighting in the West Bank and Gaza and is calling on all sides in the clashes not to take "unduly provocative action." US officials are surprised at the speed and level of the violence and are afraid it is endangering the Middle East peace process that they thought was slowly moving ahead.

that the AFL/CIO invested in this year's elections paid off.

Many older women are part of a generation that never discuss sex or sexually transmitted diseases. And many older homosexuals never experienced "coming out". That means that they and their partners are often hit by AIDS unaware. But age confers no special protection against the disease. And NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that more than 10% of the cases of AIDS in this country occurs in people over 50 years of age.

One of the Republicans' promises to congressional office workers, the right to unionize, may be slipping away. The law passed at the beginning of the 104th Congress allowing aides to organize specifies a deadline of October first for a final approval vote. But NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that Congress has not been able to work out which staffers should be allowed to unionize and under what terms.

in the West Bank and Gaza.

. He also reviews the successes and failures of the Congress, expected to adjourn next week.

about his new book >A Civil War, Army Versus Navy -- A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry, that looks at the storied rivalry between the military's two most august academies.

and Marshall Whitman of the Heritage Foundation about the electorate's message to the politicians. A message that demands both side "get along with each other."

The United Steelworkers Union's agreement with Bridgestone/Firestone Manufacturer, the giant U-S tire manufacturer to end a labor dispute that has been going on for more than two years. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that both sides say that they got what they wanted out of the settlement.

NPR's Cheryl Devall reports on an historic shift in the Florida legislature. Both houses are now Republican-controlled. They may find themselves at odds with Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles ... a situation similar to that of the President and the Congress.