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that the AFL/CIO invested in this year's elections paid off.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the United States is alarmed at the escalating fighting in the West Bank and Gaza and is calling on all sides in the clashes not to take "unduly provocative action." US officials are surprised at the speed and level of the violence and are afraid it is endangering the Middle East peace process that they thought was slowly moving ahead.

. At least fifty-five people have died in the clashes between Palestinian police and Israeli troops sparked by the opening of a tunnel near a Muslim holy site.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that much of the success of workfare in New York City hinges upon the cooperation of the city's powerful labor unions...unions which are growing increasingly skeptical about the role and motives of the workfare programs.

Nationally syndicated columnist and author ROGER SIMON. He's covered every presidential election for the past twenty years. He'll give us his impression of the election, the day after. SIMON wrote the book "Road Show" about the 1988 presidential election. He's currently working on a book about this year's campaign which will be out next year.

Many older women are part of a generation that never discuss sex or sexually transmitted diseases. And many older homosexuals never experienced "coming out". That means that they and their partners are often hit by AIDS unaware. But age confers no special protection against the disease. And NPR's Wendy Schmelzer reports that more than 10% of the cases of AIDS in this country occurs in people over 50 years of age.

One of the Republicans' promises to congressional office workers, the right to unionize, may be slipping away. The law passed at the beginning of the 104th Congress allowing aides to organize specifies a deadline of October first for a final approval vote. But NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that Congress has not been able to work out which staffers should be allowed to unionize and under what terms.

. He also reviews the successes and failures of the Congress, expected to adjourn next week.

about his new book >A Civil War, Army Versus Navy -- A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry, that looks at the storied rivalry between the military's two most august academies.

NPR's David Welna reports on the tensions in Nicaragua growing out of a dispute over the results of last month's presidential election. Even though Nicaragua's electoral council today finally confirmed the victory of the conservative former mayor of Managua, Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega refuses to concede, saying there was fraud. The conflict is making the business community and foreign investors increasingly nervous.