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Ed Thompson reports on last night's plane crash of a charter jetliner off the Dominican Republic, and the efforts to recover survivors and bodies in the shark infested waters. All 189 passengers and crew are feared dead.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's on-air player is Tom Hall from akland, California. His public radio station is KQED out of San Francisco)

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that an experiment this past week in trying to raise the level of political debate among citizens met with limited success. Sponsors and many of the 459 participants in the National Issues Convention in Austin, Texas, said their deliberations on issues such as the economy and family showed that people with widely different views could reach some agreement. But critics noted that only a few of the main presidential candidates participated in what had been billed as a major meeting between politicians and citizens.

WE ASKED NPR'S DEIDRE BERGER IN FRANKFURT TO TEST OUT SOME RECIPES FROM GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL'S JUST PUBLISHED COOKBOOK, WHICH HE CO-AUTHORED WITH HIS WIFE. HER FINDING: KOHL-ESTEROL!

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Linda talks with David Brooks of the Weekly Standard and Paul West of the Baltimore Sun about the Republican presidential candidates, Whitewater and the week in which House Speaker Newt Gingrich beat a tactical retreat from his hard line on the budget.

NPR's David Welna reports on the rising tide of protest against President Ernesto Samper of Colombia who is being accused of accepting money from the Cali drug cartel. Members of Samper's government are distancing themselves from the president...while thousands of students and citizens have taken to the streets demanding Samper's resignation.

tour in support of Republican Congressmen. Despite low public approval numbers, Gingrich has drawn large crowds both supporters and protesters. And his appearances have helped raise lots of campaign money for Republican incumbents.

This week marks the fifth anniversary of the allied military campaign to evict Iraqi troops from Kuwait. Nearly five years after the end of the military conflict, United Nations sanctions against Iraq remain in place. NPR's Sunni Khalid visited Baghdad to see the effects of the sanctions on the people in the city and found that the economy has declined considerably in the past five years. Food prices have skyrocketed, the education system has declined, and the hospital system is short of supplies and medicines.

A former presidential aide testified before a House committee today about some notes he wrote in 1993 regarding the firings of White House travel office employees. The notes mention conversations in which third parties told the witness that Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted the employees fired. Mrs Clinton has said she did not direct any dismissals, and NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the witness testified that she did not tell him to fire them.