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Noah Adams talks with two nuclear warfare experts about the significance of a statement signed by 60 retired military officers around the world, which calls for the virtual elimination of nuclear weapons. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired, is deputy director of the Center for Defense Information. From 1955 until 1980, he was responsible for planning and training for nuclear warfare. In the 1980s, as Director of Operations for U.S. forces in Europe and the Middle East, Carroll was responsible for 7,000 nuclear weapons. He signed the statement. Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. As part of the Reagan administration, he was responsible for negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms. Perle, who didn't sign the statement, says it's dangerous for the U.S. to get rid of all its nuclear weapons.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade that the government of President Slobodan Milosevic is moving to keep the protests against his regime from spreading. Two independent radio stations knocked off the air earlier this week are operating again. The election commission is appealing the annulment of the elections that started all the protests. And the government is promising to pay retirement pensions that should have been sent out in October.

NPR's John Ydstie looks at the realities behind some of the economic claims and counter-claims in last night's presidential debate. Contender Bob Dole went to great lengths to persuade listeners that the American economy is worse off under President Clinton, while the President stressed what he portrayed as the economic upturn over the past four years.

. North Korea has arrested an American and charged him with spying for South Korea. Seoul denies the charge. This latest incident comes just a few weeks after a North Korean submarine was captured in South Korea's waters.

inside the British army's headquarters in Lisburn. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Commentator Elissa Ely is teaching her husband to play the piano-- his inspiration for practicing is keeping an eye on the Red Sox game. She wishes he could have the inspiration she had when she learned-- her teacher's houseful of Russian wolfhounds.

We remember tenor sax player Eddie Harris with the eprise of an interview we first broadcast in l992. Harris was the first to roduce a gold-selling jazz record and also recorded an historic jam session at ontreux (MON-trow) with Les McCann that produced the song "Compared to What". arris died in Los Angeles on November fifth.

Danny speaks to Rwanda's Ambassador to the United States, Theogene Rudasingwa. The Rwandan diplomat says the return of the refugees back home obviates the need for a multinational force, whose original mission was to secure the refugees against attacks by Hutu militiamen. With the militamen now on the run, Rudasingwa says his country can be responsible for security. But he now wants international donors who sustained the refugees in their camps to give the funds to Rwanda for their resettlement.

a million Rwandan refugees. The abrupt return has raised doubts among members of the multinational peace force for Zaire about the need for military intervention.

in the 1967 Six Day War. The area is considered the key to any possible peace agreement between Israel and Syria.