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Korva speaks with NPR's Michael Skoler in Kinshasa, where the Zairian army is forcing United Nations aid workers to take crates of weapons and ammunition aboard their relief flights to a refugee camp in embattled eastern Zaire. Skoler says the Zairian government is arming former Rwandan Hutu soldiers in the camps to help them blunt an anti-goverment offensive by Zairian Tutsi rebel forces.

15 years ago, San Francisco's Sunset district was overwhelmingly Irish-Catholic. Now it's 60 percent Asian. Recently, swastikas have been painted on Asian-owned businesses and racial tensions have been rising. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that despite the city's reputation for tolerance, San Francisco has not been immune to the problems experienced in other cities when neighborhoods are transformed.

- As El Salvador prepares to hold congressional and local elections tomorrow, the leftwing National Liberation Front -- now a political party after fighting a guerrilla war for five years -- is poised to win a sizeable chunk of the vote from the ruling ARENA Party. Reporter Mike Lanchin profiles one of the more interesting candidates for Congress, a charismatic former guerrilla leader named Maria Navarette (nava-RET-tay).

Gillian Sharpe reports from The Hague, where the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia is hearing testimony. For the first time a survivor of a camp for Bosnian Serbs told the court today of atrocities against Serbs. The testimony is part of the trial of four men--three Muslims and a Croat--who are accused of committing war crimes. (3:15) CUTAWAY 1A 0:59 1B

are jeopardizing U.S. foreign interests, and lowering the morale of U.S. diplomats. Further spending cuts, expected in the coming years to help balance the national budget, could do even more damage to the country's foreign affairs efforts.

fire destroyed the complex. After the blaze, owner Aaron Feuerstein became a working-class hero when he vowed to preserve jobs. He has fallen short of his vow to avoid layoffs, but the company is continuing to re-build.

Dan Charles reports on efforts to make tinier and tinier computer chips. The computer industry has been successfully making its silicon chips smaller every year but now is facing a technological barrier.

President Elect George W. Bush had a lunch meeting in Austin today with Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana to talk about ways of bridging the gap between the parties back in Washington. One way to do it might be to appoint Democrats to the president's Cabinet, of course, and Breaux himself has been mentioned as a candidate for the Energy Department. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the Texas capital.

Filmmaker Isaac Julien has won prizes and controversy for his feature films Young Soul Rebels and his documentaries Looking for Langston, and he is often called Britain's pre-eminent black independent filmmaker. But he is turning frequently to museum settings to show his films, which deal in a dreamlike, experimental way with the intersection of black and gay identity. Pat Dowell has more.

NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg reports this year's awards for the National Medal of Arts have been announced. The Medal honors organizations that have added to the artistic culture of the United States by assisting in the growth or availability of the arts. Recipients include Maya Angelou, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and National Public Radio's own cultural division.

Linda talks with Joan Hollinger, Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, and editor of the textbook Adoption Law and Practice, about the crazy quilt of state laws concerning adoption. In the case of the twins, a couple from Britain took babies from California to Arkansas because of a loophole in the law there. (5:15)Adoption Law and Practice, is published by the Matthew Bender Company.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with NPR's Debbie Elliott on the continuing legal battles over the Florida election results. With George W. Bush currently showing a 300 vote lead, both campaigns are bringing in heavyweight legal teams for the possible court challenges. But the Florida Secretary of State is petitioning to have all legal matters turned over to the state's Supreme Court.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports President Clinton had separate meetings with the leaders of Russia and South Korea today, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in the oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei. Questions about the still unresolved U.S. presidential election followed Mr. Clinton to the summit. He urged everyone to follow the lead of the American people, and simply await the outcome.

The election of the next U.S. president has largely come down to the question of whether ballots in Florida may be recounted by hand. An official tally yesterday of certified results from across the state showed George W. Bush leading Al Gore by 300 votes. But at least two counties say they may want to revise their tallies after rechecking ballots by hand. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

Lisa talks with NPR's Ivan Watson, who is in the West African country of Benin, about the boat full of children that still has not returned to the country. The rusted, aging ship left the capital city of Cotonou on March 30th, and was believed to be taking the children to work as forced laborers. It tried to dock at two different ports in Africa and was turned away. Now there is fear that it may never return to Benin.

Dogs have been guiding the blind for more than 70 years in the United States. The first guide school opened in 1929, and since then has trained more than 12-thousand dogs to assist the visually impaired. But this year, at a farm in North Carolina, another animal is learning the craft. From member station WFAE in Charlotte, Scott Jagow reports.

Music critic Tom Manoff listens to a new CD of Clarinet Quintets. The works are by Mozart and by Brahms performed by David Shifrin and the Emerson String Quartet. Manoff says he's heard these works many times, and was very pleased by the intimacy and passion in the performances. (5:15) The CD is called Mozart/Brahms Clarinet Quintets. Performed by David Shifrin and the Emerson String Quartet, on Deutsche Grammophon Records.

Kent Russell (brother of Swamplandia! author Karen) makes a striking debut with a collection of essays that double as memoir. Critic Michael Schaub calls the book tough, tender and deeply original.

Across the country, hospitals are desperate for RNs and specialty nurses. Yet, paradoxically, the nursing pipeline has slowed, with educators retiring or returning to clinical work themselves.

Each year, students at Dartmouth Medical School honor the people who donated their bodies to science for use as cadavers... and learn more about the lives those donors led. Susan Keese of Vermont Public Radio attended this year's ceremony.

Miami Dade and Palm Beach are two of the counties in Florida seeing increases in the rates of people 50 and older who are testing positive for HIV. Experts say doctors and patients alike should consider the importance of safe sex education and testing for the virus among older people, too.

The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in "emergency funding" for 56 humanities councils across the country. The government recently eliminated $65 million in support.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ukrainian activist Hanna Hopko about what 2022 has been like for her and her family living through the war.

A retired U.S. Army veteran. A 86-year-old woman who'd raised eight kids on her own. Two parents shielding their 2-month-old son. These were some of the victims of Saturday's shooting in El Paso

A Denver city councilmember who supports defunding police weighs new success of replacing cops with mental health teams. Six months in, the team has responded to almost 750 calls, without one arrest.