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As part of our campaign coverage, we've been hearing from candidates as they travel around the country seeking support. Senator Robert Dole, in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership conference last month in Mobile, Alabama, says he wants to eliminate the departments of education, commmerce, energy and housing as a way to downsize the federal government. He says the United States has lost prestige as the leader of the free world because we haven't had a foreign policy. Dole says as president, American soldiers would not serve under United Nations command.

in the detention by the Bosnians of senior Bosnian Serb military leaders.

Robert talks to poet Catherine Bowman about the work of Czeslaw Milosz, 84-year-old poet and Nobel Laureate.(8:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. RETURN TO KIKWIT. NPR's Michael Skoler visits Kikwit, Zaire almost a year after the ebola (ee-BOH-lah) epidemic broke out there. The virus appeared in May last year and is usually fatal. The epidemic was stopped but left 244 people dead. Scientists from the U-S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are testing samples of tens of thousands of insects and animals taken from the forest where the virus originated but still have not found the source. Hospital workers in Kikwit are still reluctant to treat patients, and while many people have overcome their fear of the disease, there remain superstitions and misinformation among the population.

Daniel talks with Lois Ann Yamanaka, the author of the book "Wild Meat and Bully Burgers." Her book is loosely based on her own life as a Japanese-American growing up in Hawaii. She described how difficult it was being poor and of Japanese decent in a society where being white is considered being "the best." She also talks of the things she tried to do to be accepted and how ashamed she was in her early years of her family and family heritage.

Daniel talks with Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa about the grueling and dehumanizing nature of campaigning in the presidential caucus in his state.

U.S.-Iran relations are expected to get even tougher when a new Iranian president takes office Thursday. He's a former prosecutor expected to take a hard line inside and outside the country.

an engineer with Garfield County, Washington, about a local phenomenon that may take years to solve: a new section of road that smokes and sometimes even bursts into flame.

DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH ALICE RIVLIN, DIRECTOR OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, AND TOMMY THOMPSON, GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION --- ABOUT THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF STATES. THE NATIONAL GOVERNOR'S ASSOCIATION HAD IT'S WINTER MEETING THIS WEEK.

SCOTT TALKS ABOUT THE LIFE OF A FIREFIGHTER AFTER ANOTHER DEATH THIS WEEK IN THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT.