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Lt. Gen. HAROLD MOORE and U.S. News and World Report Senior Writer JOSEPH GALLOWAY. On November 14, 1965 they were together at the site one of the first and bloodiest major land battle of the Vietnam War, Ia Drang. MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry, and GALLOWAY, then a UPI reporter, accompanied them. MOORE and GALLOWAY wrote a book about their experiences in the Ia Drang valley, We Were Soldiers Once...And Young (Random House). (REBROADCAST FROM 11/11/92)Journalist and best-selling author DAVID HALBERSTAM. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting from Vietnam. He was one of the first American reporters to contradict the government's optimistic picture of the war. He was attacked by officials of South Vietnam and the United States for negativism and inaccuracy in his reporting. In 1967 HALBERSTAM retired from newspaper reporting. His books since then include The Best and Brightest, The Powers That Be, The Fifties, and others. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/3/93)Writer MICHAEL HERR. He wrote what's considered the definitive Vietnam book, Dispatches. The movie "Apocalypse Now" is loosely based on his writings. (REBROADCAST FROM 5/

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A periscope sweep of the ocean made by the crew of a U.S. Navy submarine was not thorough enough -- according to newspaper reports today. The Washington Times says the finding is part of a confidential navy report on the crash of the USS Greeneville into a Japanese ship off Hawaii. Host Noah Adams talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten about that and another report that the commander was aware of sonar soundings that indicated a ship was nearby.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on President Clinton's last economic report to Congress, which he sent to Capitol Hill today. The president rejected fears that a recession is coming. Speaking to reporters at the White House today, he said he hopes the Bush administration and Congress will work to pay off the national debt and will resist big tax cuts or spending increases.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Santiago, Chile, on the reaction to this weekend's release of military documents. The reports tell what happened to a number of political dissidents who disappeared after the 1973 military coup. But family members say the reports don't offer much detail, and they're skeptical if the documents are true.

American journalist Michael Kelly dies in a reported Humvee accident near Baghdad. Kelly, an editor-at-large with The Atlantic Monthly and columnist for The Washington Post, was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division. Kelly is the first American reporter to die in the war. NPR's Robert Smith reports.

Recently-compiled Pentagon reports indicate that chemical weapons were detected as many as seven times in the first week of the Persian Gulf War. Previously, the Defense Department had acknowledged only two credible reports that chemical weapons were detected near the deployed US troops. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the center of controversy in today's report released by teh Senate Whitewater committee. The Republicans' report says she and White House aides showed a pattern of concealment and obstruction that continues to this day. Democrats say the investigation found no wrongdoing on her part. But never before in history has a congressional committee taken on a First Lady so directly.

Two reports are being issued today on Gulf War Syndrome. The president's commission on the disease issued its final report, which criticized the Pentagon's investigation of veterans' health complaints. There's also a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is expected to provide new insights into the syndrome. Robert discusses the new reports with NPR's Richard Harris and Martha Raddatz.

A Justice Department report earlier this week criticizing procedures at the FBI's crime lab could affect prosecutions in the World Trade Center bombing case. Two defendants in the 1993 bombing are awaiting trial and the lead defendant, who has already been convicted, is appealing. The inspector general's report concluded that an examiner from the lab gave ``inaccurate and incomplete testimony'' in the case. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.