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The Senate race in Massachusetts promised everything voters want in an election: two smart, popular candidates...the incumbent Senator, John Kerry, and the current governor of Massachusetts, William Weld; seven issue-oriented debates; and a voluntary limit on campaign spending. But the race has been tight for months and as election day draws near, the mud is flying and the voluntary spending caps both candidates had imposed are off. From member station WBUR, Patrick Cox reports.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Ahmad Chalabi (CHA-la-bee), President of the Iraqi National Congress,--a coalition of Sunni, Shi'it and Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq--and Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East, about the future of opposition to Saddam Hussein.

low key, but important role in her husband's re-election campaign. Mrs. Clinton has played the part of maintaining the Democratic base of voters, while President Clinton concentrates on undecided voters.

that would create the world's largest freight company. The merger between CSX and Conrail, two train shipping companies, was announced yesterday. The companies say the merger would make shipping more efficient and less expensive, but manufacturers and labor unions are worried about costs, competition, and the loss of jobs. The controversial merger must first be approved by federal regulators.

NPR's Vicki Que reports that the group trying to bring the "French abortion pill" to American women is having trouble raising the money it needs. The Population Council, a non-profit group in New York, set up a private, non-profit company to market RU 486 in the United States. But the company is having trouble raising the estimated $20 million it needs, in part because the drug is so controversial.

seem to be closer to reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. The development came amid controversy over French President Chirac's visit to Israel yesterday.

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NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

NPR's Berkes reports that investigators have found strong evidence implicating "Unabomber" suspect, Theodore Kaczynski.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.