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Robert talks with Linda Wertheimer who is in New Hampshire following the campaign. She assesses the mood of Granite State, as well as the fortunes of the Republican presidential candidates in the run-up to the state's primary next week.

The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH BRODSKY WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE AIR A 1986 PROFILE OF THE POET BY KETZEL LEVINE, WEEKEND EDITION'S GARDENING CONSULTANT, WHO USED TO BE AN ARTS REPORTER FOR NPR.

Robert talks to Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, about his effort to change the Amtrack decision of dropping the names of some of its trains, like the Night Owl, and replacing the names with numbers.

Noah speaks with Sherry Folsom of the San Onofre (oh-NO-for- ree) nuclear power plant about four kittens that were discovered late last week in the nuclear power plant. We check in on there progress. The kittens, Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Neutron are doing fine and show minimal traces of cesium and cobalt. The kittens had traces of nuclear dust, but Ms. Folsom says they are doing fine and will probably grow up to be healthy cats.

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the GOP has and has had for a long time a very sophisticated machine in place to attract young voters. Since the days of Richard Nixon, the Republicans have reached out to young people on campus, through lunches, happy hours and other events. The Democrats have no such machine, and in big states like California, the average age of registered Democrats is more than 65.

Washington Editor of "The Atlantic Monthly," and NPR commentator JAMES FALLOWS. He won a National Book award for his 1981 book "National Defense" about the post Vietnam War era national defense establishment. FALLOWS new book examines what has gone wrong with the media, how it has failed to meet its public responsibilities, and what can be done about it. His new book is "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy," (Pan

caucus venues in Iowa. He reports on the debate and the issues on the minds' of voters at a Des Moines City precinct.

hostage crisis in the Russian region of Dagestan.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says that neither Congress nor President Clinton will decide the outcome of the current budget crisis. He says it is the voters who made balancing the budget the issue in 1994, and it is the voters who will rule on it in this year's elections.