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NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the outcome of the first round of Russian elections is not surprising, and that exit polls indicate that there is hope for democracy in Russia.

Linda Wertheimer interviews women from the Republican business community in Florida about their reactions to the latest controversies surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton. The women also talk about other political issues, and the things that compel them to vote.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the first indictment of Theodore Kaczynski as the person responsible for the Unabomber's mail-bombing attacks. A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned a ten-count indictment against Kaczynski, covering four separate bomb attacks that killed two people and injured two others.

NPR's Joe Neel has an update on the AMA's decision to keep its policy of opposing physician-assisted suicide. In a debate that fizzled at the annual convention, one physician charged that the organization is simply avoiding the issue.

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Commentator Elissa Ely has moved into a new neighborhood and is trying to make sure when she takes her dog for a walk people know she is respectful of the santity of their manicured lawns. She always carries three of four jumbo paper towels to show her intent to "keep the neighborhood clean". She has already run into some conflict, though.

Music reviewer Mark Jenkins has a report on music from some of today's all-girl bands who call themselves "Riot Grrrls." (GIRLS) Their style features confrontational, in-your-face lyrics, and an uncompromisingly frank attitude about men, sexuality, and modern life. Jenkins takes a look at music from the Raincoats, Bikini Kill, and Sleater-Kinney. (IN STEREO)

NPR's Nina Teicholz repotrs from Rio de Janeiro that Brazil's effort to end hyper-inflation has created other problems: increasing business bankruptcies, rising unemployment, and a serious loss of consumer buying power. Economists lay much of the blame on the so-called Real (r

A House committee opened hearings today into the White House's improperly obtaining FBI background files on top Republicans. While the committee looks into the matter, the White House has appointed Charles Easley, a career civil servant originally appointed during the Reagan administration, to be the new head of security. He'll run the office which obtained the files. NPR's Peter Kenyon has more on the story.

Last week Seattle got a small taste of disaster when an earthquake rumbled briefly, upsetting household pets and knocking crockery off of shelves. But some people are never satisfied. For Commentator Michael Hood, terra firma isn't all its cracked up to be. He's waiting for the big one.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from Moscow on the continuing shake-up in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin today fired three of the most powerful members of his administration. The dismissals included his personal security chief, the head of the Federal Security Service...what used to be the K-G-B... and a hard-line deputy prime minister.

Noah talks with Brad Stillman, the telecommunications policy director for the Consumer Federation of America, to discuss Westinghouse Electric's three-point-nine billion dollar acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting and what it means for consumers.

Commentator Fred Grandy applauds Robert Dole for rattling GOP cages with his statements about abortions and urges him to take his rattling a step further: dump the whole GOP mission statement. He says such statements are old fashioned and open to scolding by the press.

Robert talks with Newsweek Washington correspondent Michael Isikoff about today's report that Bruce Lindsey, a close advisor to President Clinton, has been named as a co-conspirator in the current Whitewater trial. Although Lindsey is not being indicted, this latest news is more trouble for the White House.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the House of Representatives today passed a bill that would impose sanctions against foreign individuals or companies investing in Iran or Libya's oil industries. The legislation is similar to the Helms-Burton Law, which punishes certain foreign firms doing business in Cuba. As with Helms-Burton, the Iran-Libya bill is raising the ire of America's trading partners, who say it violates international rules of free trade.

Robert talks live with NPR's Ted Clark about the US decision not to punish China for selling equipment to Pakistan that could be used to make nuclear bombs. The US had threatened to impose sanctions that would affect 10 billion dollars in US projects in China. But China agreed to make a public committment not to sell such technology in the future.

The U-S and North Korea have an agreement that may help the U-S get back the remains of more servicemen missing from the Korean War. The U-S has committed to paying North Korea two million dollars to cover the cost of recovering 162 sets of remains that were returned in 1993-94. Thousands of servicemen who were in the war are unaccounted for. NPR's Phillip Davis reports on the agreement.

Robert speaks with Marjorie Miller, Los Angeles Times Bureau Chief in Jerusalem, about the meeting in Gaza today of the Palestine National Council. For decades, the P-N-C has been the government in exile for Palestinians. This is the group's first meeting in territory controlled by Palestinians and Yasser Arafat is asking the council to remove their constitutional clause calling for the destruction of Israel. Many of the participants have rejected any accommodation with Israel in the past.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that some key decisions against affirmative action in higher education have stunned educators who've spent the past 25 years working on improving diversity. At a recent meeting of the National Conference of Blacks in Education, many educators say that they're comfortable with the prospect that affirmative action may be scaled back at the nation's colleges and universities, and they're looking for other ways to improve admissions for minorities.