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DEBBIE ELLIOTT REPORTS ON THE DILEMMA FACING POOR STATES SUCH AS ALABAMA AS A RESULT OF CONGRESS' DOWNSIZING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND CUTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS WHICH REPRESENT A SIZEABLE PORTION OF STATE BUDGETS.

The Ben Ezra Synagogue is Cairo's oldest Jewish temple. PR's Sunni Khalid (SOO-nee KAH-lid) reports on the recent renovation of the ncient structure, which used to be at the center of what once was a thriving ewish community in the city.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

NPR's Silvia Poggioli reports on the latest from the former ugoslavia: Bosnian government forces are on the move again, and have driven housands of civilians from their homes. Also, Serbian forces in the hills urrounding Sarajevo are facing a NATO ultimatum to remove their weapons or uffer further airstrikes.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON WHAT THE RUSSIANS ARE DOING IN CHECHENYA, FROM A TOWN WHERE PEACE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COME -- BUT WHERE THIS WEEK'S EVENTS PROVE IT HASN'T.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the Krickets, a cricket team made up of homeless men in Los Angeles. The team has been competing in a local league and has been so successful that it's been invited to play a series of exhibition games in England.

Julia Haybell reports on an American invasion of Great Britain...an invasion of frogs that is. American Bullfrog tadpoles, which were inadvertantly transported in a shipment of aquatic plants, have escaped into the wild and have grown up into big American bullfrogs which are eating the smaller British variety.

AS THE FOURTH U.N.'S WOMEN'S CONFERENCE CONCLUDED, NPR'S JULIE McCARTHY REPORTS FROM BEIJING ON WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT THE RESULTING DRAFTED DOCUMENTS MEAN.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that a new study has found that the number of Americans who die from infectious diseases has been increasing. Researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that deaths from infectious diseases increased 58 percent from 1980 to 1992.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that today was the final day for official comments on a proposal by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes. Accordingly, the tobacco industry held a news conference to outline its opposition to the regulations, while anti-smoking groups reiterated their support.