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NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that a congressional panel heard from seven White House Travel Office employees who were fired a few months after President Clinton took office. The fired workers said the Clinton administration drummed up phony allegations so they could put their friends in power.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that UN and Iraqi negotiators are moving closer to allowing Iraq to sell $4 billion in annual oil exports, so that the country can buy limited amounts of food. The two sides have outlined the remaining obstacles, and now it's up to Saddam Hussein to decide how to proceed.

Adam Hochberg reports on the candidacy of former stock car racer Richard Petty. Petty is running on the Republican ticket for Secretary of State for North Carolina. Republicans are hopeful that a Petty victory could mean that North Carolina will become a more Republican state. Democrats would like to see the position of State Secretary abolished before election time.

This is the time of year when the number of illegal border crossings increase dramatically. While beefed up patrols appear to have reduced crossings in some areas, many Mexican are simply finding other points of entry. NPR's David Welna reports on how thousands have pulled down fences and rushed the border near Douglas, Arizona.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russian President Yeltsin has declared the end of the hostage crisis in southern Russia. Nine days ago, Chechen rebels took a hundred people hostage. Today, Yeltsin claimed all the rebel Chechens are dead and most of the hostages have been rescued.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from the American sector of the NATO implementation force zone in northern Bosnia. In spite of a more agressive position taken by NATO on behalf of the International War Crimes Tribunal, American soldiers don't expect to be apprehending indicted war criminals any time soon.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the resignation of Israel's head of security forces. The Shin Bet chief, whose identity remains anonymous, stepped down to take responsibility for a lapse in security that allowed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the death of a Palestinian terrorist who was believed to be behind a series of murderous suicide bombings in Israel. The Islamic group Hamas has accused Israeli agents of the death and has warned of revenge attacks.

The House today approved fundamental changes in the nation's agricultural policy as it's existed since the Great Depression. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on the so-called Freedom-to-Farm legislation that gradually ends subsidies from the federal government and leaves farming to market forces. The Senate has already passed similar legislation.

Reviewer Mark Jenkins reports on the latest cd release, "Keep a Secret," from the midwestern rock band Mysteries of Life. They're not your average classic-rock cover band...Jenkins discovers that the members have an unusual knack for producing catchy melodies of their own. (5:00) (IN S