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to spread their demonstrations to cities other than Belgrade in an effort to further pressure President Milosevic....

to reduce the number of American bases on Okinawa -- a move aimed at easing anti-U.S. sentiment on the island after the rape earlier this year of a local woman by three American military personnel...

Commentator Elissa Ely tells the story of a patient who reliably appeared for every appointment... her monthly chart notes showed she was doing very well and the medication seemed to be keeping things stable. As it turns out, she never was taking the medication, but fooled all her doctors.

Robert talks with Binjamin Wilkomirski about the Holocaust. Wilkomirski's book, Fragments, is an account of his childhood experiences. The book has been translated into nine languages and has been published in eleven countries. As a very young child, Wilkomirski was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. He lived in barracks with other children. The language that he learned was a combination of the many languages to which he was exposed. He had no native tongue. He has no recollection of his mother... only of a woman he was brought to one day at the camp and was told was his mother. Wilkomirski tells Robert about the effect all of these experiences have had on his life, and his outlook on the world.

Delta and Continental are talking about the possiblity of merging the two airlines, according to published reports. The talks are described as preliminary, but analysts point out that both airlines have pulled off impressive turnarounds and few overlapping routes. The complementary route structure would make it easier for the two airlines to clear regulatory hurdles. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

the United States and France, old allies and long-time rivals.

A federal court ordered new elections after ruling several voting districts there unconstitutional due to racial gerrymandering. Congressional seats in three districts will be decided in runoffs held next week.

Delegates from 43 countries are meeting to discuss how to achieve peace and stability in the region.

Noah talks to Allan Pedersen, who runs a hotdog stand called McAllan in Jutland, Denmark. Pedersen was sued by McDonald's for copyright infringement for using the "Mc" prefix on the name of his business. Denmark's Supreme Court ruled that he did not infringe upon McDonald's right to the prefix. This is one of several trademark lawsuits McDonald's has brought against other businesses worldwide.

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.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that it is not easy for people to immigrate legally to the United States, as the case of two sisters from the Philippines shows. More than a half million Filipinos are waiting to join relatives in the States, but that wait can take decades.

on education.

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.

some parents in Southern California into keeping their kids indoors on Halloween.

The federal government's reports on the state of housing in the US have been sharply divided between the record number of Americans who own homes... and the fast-increasing number who live in so-called "worst case housing." Those are the people who are stuck in squalid conditions, or whose housing costs such a large part of their income that one more rent increase will leave them on the streets. NPR's John Nielsen explores the crisis facing the working poor and government policy makers.

Noah talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade where tens of thousands of demonstrators were in the streets for the tenth consecutive day. The protestors are angry because the government of President Slobodan Milosevic annuled the results of an election November 17th. Milosevic's party lost to the opposition. Re-run elections were held yesterday. Preliminary results indicate Milosevic's party won.

Chris Nuttall reports from Ankara, Turkey, on an effort by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to convince a group of Turkish Kurds to leave their camps in northern Iraq and return to Turkey. The Kurds have been in the camps since 1994 when they fled fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatist guerrillas.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the continuation of OJ Simpson's testimony under questioning by his defense lawyers in his civil trial. The trial is part of the "wrongful death" suit filed by the families of murder victims Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson. An attorney for the plaintiffs will also get a chance to question Simpson today.

It seems certain that New York City will have less than one thousand homicides...for the first time since 1968. Crime overall is down throughout the city...Melissa Block reports on what this drop in crime means, and how the city's police force brought about the changes.

NPR's Eric Westervelt examines the debate over academic standards at the two-year schools.

- The Museum of the City of New York has organizied an exhibit displaying the toys children played with 100 years ago. Jacki talks with collection curator Sheila Clark, who describes the toys of yesteryear and imagines what might have been on a 19th century Christmas wish list.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that two months of protest against the Milosevic government in Belgrade Serbia hasn't changed anything in Serbia...but it has caused a ripple effect in the rest of the Balkan peninsula. Demonstrators in Bulgaria and Albania are in the streets protesting against their governments. The reasons aren't exactly the same in each country, but the underlying themes are: improved economies and democratic reforms.

NPR's David Welna reports from Havana that Cuban President Fidel Castro is defiantly insisting that he will not permit further political reforms, despite expectations raised by Castro's recent meeting with Pope John Paul the Second. Cuba is also under fire from Europe, particularly from longtime ally Spain, for its lack of democratic freedoms. In the latest sign of his hardline stance, Castro today oversaw a huge parade of military hardware, the first such display in Havana in ten years.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where demonstrators marched through cold, blinding snow to protest the government of Slobodan Milosevic. This is the beginning of the second week of marching. At first the marchers were protesting an annulllment of municipal elections November 17th, but the protest has grown into demands for the ouster of Milosevic.

Commentator Joyce Maynard tells the story of one-armed Frank... a man who lives in her town whom she took to a concert by the Fabulous Thunderbirds-- and he delighted in pulling out his own harmonica to play along. Frank was deep into his eighties at the time, and prompted Joyce to reflect on her own father -- she wished she had taken him to a concert when he was still alive.