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NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Baghdad that after Saddam Hussein sent his tanks into northern Iraq to reassert his sovereignty there through a Kurdish group, the US not only retaliated by firing two rounds of cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense systems, it also froze a UN plan to allow Iraq to sell oil to use the proceeds to buy much-needed food and medicine. That plan would have helped alleviate some of the economic effects of six years of economic sanctions. But not everyone is displeased, for many are making millions from the sanctions.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that relief agencies were able to bring food and medicine to the Zairean border town of Goma today, but the aid will not reach the one million Rwandan refugees displaced by warfare there. The supplies will be distributed to the tens of thousands of local residents who stayed in the city after Zairean rebels captured it earlier this month. But Zaire's army, along with exiled Rwandan Hutu militias, is fighting the Zairean rebels just to the west, preventing delivery of the aid to the vast numbers of people driven from their refugee camps by the recent fighting.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports that although Bob Dole may be trailing President Clinton in polls that ask all voters their opinions, he has a solid lead in some smaller cross-sections of Americans...most notably, among the small business community. Small business owners have their own lobbying groups, and tend to like Dole's talk of tax cuts. But Democrats may be grabbing a larger share of the small-business vote than in the past, due to their focus on health care reform and other small business concerns.

Robert talks with Matthew Wald, a reporter for the New York Times, about the fire that brought down ValuJet Flight 592 last May. Airline safety experts are testifying this week at a hearing of the National Transportation Safety Board. Wald discusses what occurred at the hearing today, including speculation that the fire on board the plane may have started on the ground. The question of who should bear the responsibility for the accident has come into play in today's testimony; ValuJet, as the air carrier, or Sabretech, the company responsible for packing the oxygen generators now being blamed for starting the fire. There are some indications now that language difficulties among the Sabretech loading crew may have contributed to the confusion surrounding the loading and packaging of the generators.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on how a political scandal is playing out. Today, the lower house of the Russian parliament called on President Yeltsin to suspend his Chief of Staff, Anatoly Chubais. A week ago, Chubais was the central figure in a newspaper story alleging illegal activity during the Presidential campaign earlier this year. The story, said to be based on tape recordings of a meeting, alleged political pay-offs, hush-money and a cover-up. Chubais called the recordings fake and today began a counter attack against his accusers.

Robert talks with Juliette Hindell, who's in Tokyo reporting for the Daily Telegraph newspaper. She says there is a craze in Japan for pairs of 1995 Nike Air Max sneakers, and they must be yellow. While the cost for a pair of these coveted shoes averages 200 dollars, people have been paying up to 900 dollars for a pair, and usually these shoes are sold second-hand. Hindell says the craze started when a popular baseball player was seen wearing them. Gangs have been stealing them from sports clubs, stores, and off people's feet.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports on today's gathering at the United Nations to mark the one-year anniversary of the Million Man March. Thousands of African-American men, women and children attended the rally outside the UN called by Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. His involvement again proved to be a lightning rod for criticism. As the crowd listened to speakers exhorting world governments to atone for injustices, Jewish groups castigated Farrakhan for anti-Semitism. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani stayed away from today's rally, saying it would be overshadowed by what he called Farrakhan's 'rhetoric of hatred'. Supporters insisted that the rally -- like the Million Man March before it -- was not a referendum on Farrakhan.

2: Director of Political Coverage for ABC News HAL BRUNO. He'll talk with Terry about how the network is covering the upcoming election. As political director BRUNO works with the producers and correspondents for all ABC news programs including "World News Tonight," "Nightline" and "This Week With David Brinkley." He's been with ABC News since 1978. Before that he worked for Newsweek magazine as reporter, foreign correspondent, bureau chief, News Editor and Chief Political Correspondent.

A new study out to day estimates that health care for the chronically ill -- people with cancer, diabetes, AIDS and other conditions that require long term costly care -- cost over 400 billion dollars in 1990. NPR has a report from Rachel Gottbaum about patients and doctors in HMOs who complain that the health plans are trying to cut costs by making it difficult for chronically ill patients to get the care they need. HMOs say they are just trying to make sure the health care system operates more efficiently.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the Clinton administration's proposal for an all-African military force that would intervene in crises in Africa. The U.S. is offering to help finance, equip and train such a force. Secretary of State Warren Christopher will be pushing the idea during his week-long trip to Africa, which began today. African nations are responding favorably, and although some Republicans in Congress oppose the plan, even some Republican policy makers say the idea should be given a chance.