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An index of the day's stories: EMBASSY BOMBING UPDATE -- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that a prime suspect in the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi was flown to the United States from Kenya and arraigned in New York. An FBI complaint filed to support the indictment of Yemeni national Khalid Salim said he was trained for the bombing attack in a terrorist camp in Afghanistan, flown to Kenya, and accompanied the driver of the booby-trapped truck when it was driven to the US embassy. US officials say a second suspect is also in the process of being brought to New York. The Kenyan government says he has already departed. (4:30) BIN LADEN'S SUDAN LINK -- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Khartoum that though the government of Sudan denies that the Islamic radical Osama bin Laden had anything to do with the pharmaceutical factory destroyed by US cruise missiles, the Saudi dissident has long personal and economic ties to the Sudan. He lived in Sudan after being forced into exile by Saudi Arabia and has used his family fortune in a network of investments in the country. (5:15) CONGO CHAOS -- NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that today fighting continued in and around the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The government of President Laurent Kabila claims it has captured a thousand rebel soldiers in Kinshasa, and is mopping up pockets of resistance. Local residents are reportedly helping track down rebel troops and that some captured rebels have been burned alive. (2:15) FROZEN EARTH -- NPR's Richard Harris reports on a newly discovered climate calamity on Earth. Scientists report evidence that the earth plunged into a series of deep freezes so severe that even the oceans were covered with ice. These freezes were in turn punctuated by a series of heat spells. All this happened between 550 and 750 million years ago. Scientists now wonder whether those climate extremes helped trigger the evolution of advanced plants and animals on Earth. (5:30) LA NINA -- With the cold waters in the Pacific stirring up new weather patterns known collectively as the La Nina effect, songwriter Richard Goldman wonders just what La Nina might mean for the weather in his area. (2:30) CLINTON SPEAKS -- Reporter Monica Brady of member station WBUR reports from Worcester, Massachusetts, where President Clinton took a break from his Martha's Vineyard vacation. The president spoke on school safety initiatives and juvenile crime, but he did not mention his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (4:00) CLINTON'S RATINGS -- Linda talks with Andrew Kohut, the director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. They discuss the Center's most recent poll, which shows a difference in the adjectives and nouns that people would choose to describe President Clinton. (4:30) LETTERS -- Linda and Noah read from listeners letters. You can write to All Things Considered at: All Things Considered Letters
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LOW GAS PRICES -- Bill Cohen, of Ohio Public Radio, reports that many vacation drivers are being pleasantly surprised by gasoline prices under a dollar a gallon. The average price for self-serve regular is now $1.02 a gallon. Gas prices were low when the summer began, but continued to fall right through the peak driving season. (3:30) INDEX CARDS -- Commentator Scott Brunner looks back on a leadership workshop in which participants were asked to prioritize their interests and loved ones on index cards. (4:00) MARKETS DOWN -- NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the day's activity in the major world stock markets. The markets have been in flux because of concerns about the Russian ruble, fallout from the Asian financial crisis, and concerns that a global financial crisis could be beginning. (4:00) RUSSIA RUMORS -- Noah talks with NPR's Anne Garrels about the rumors circulating in Russia concerning the possible resignation of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. They also talk about the continuing slide of the ruble and the state of Russia's economy. (4:45) POWER GRAB -- Commentator David Brooks says that the state of the Russian economy is depressing, but not long ago, conditions appeared to be promising. He says that the plans for privatization of resources were undermined by a few greedy former bureaucrats and that the West underestimated the problems that would occur when only a few people ended up with such concentrated power. (3:00) RITTER RESIGNATION -- NPR's Ted Clark reports that the resignation of UN arms inspector Scott Ritter underscores the complaints that the United Nations arms inspectors in Iraq are no longer allowed to do their jobs as mandated. The arms inspection agency has found its hands tied in part because of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's effort to review the arms inspections process, and also because of US unwillingness to get into a new confrontation with Iraq. (4:00) IRAQ'S LINKS WITH SUDAN -- NPR's Mike Shuster reports that US justification for destroying a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan has shifted from a focus on its links to Saudi dissent Osama bin Laden, to alleged Iraqi chemical weapons experts believed to have been working in the Sudan to avoid UN weapons inspections in their homeland. US officials say Iraqi technicians came to the Sudan soon after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War to continue their work on chemical weapons in Sudanese pharmaceutical plants. (4:00) BONNIE AFTERMATH -- NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that initial surveys indicate that Hurricane Bonnie's pass through Wilmington, North Carolina, despite its 115 mile-per-hour winds, did not cause much serious damage. The storm knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses, blew out windows at a high school and left some homes flooded with as much as 18 inches of water. But local officials say the damage is not comparable to the havoc created by Hurricane Fran two years ago. (4:00) STORM FLAGS -- Noah talks with Chief Petty Officer Ed Lawrence of the United States Coast Guard about the flags and pennants flown to warn mariners of storm conditions. This flag warning system was created by the U.S. Army in the mid 1800s and is still in general use today. While weather advisories are now transmitted through the media and over marine band radios, Lawrence believes some sailors do not pay attention to these advisories and learn of weather severe conditions by reading the storm flags. (3:00) PEA ISLAND -- Linda talks with Captain Steve Rochon of the US Coast Guard about the United States Life-Saving Service, the historic precursor of the Coast Guard. The Life-Saving Service had stations up and down the East Coast, charged with saving persons and property from wrecked ships. Captain Rochon tells the story of the wreck of the E.S. Newmun and how her crew was saved by the surf men of Pea Island under the command of Richard Etheridge, the first African-American station keeper in the Life-Saving Service. (5:30)
BILL KIRCHNER -- Bill Kirchner is a composer, teacher, Grammy-winning
record producer, radio producer, and a saxophonist. He had a tumor at the top of
his spine that, if left untreated, would have eventually prevented him from
breathing. Surgery left his right side paralyzed. Over time, as his ability to
move returned, he had his soprano saxophone specially rebuilt so that he could
play it again. He has released a recording of music he recorded prior to the
surgery. It's called Some Enchanted Evening. NPR's Dean Olsher reports.
Some Enchanted Evening is available on A Records and distributed by
Challenge Records, catalogue number AL 73115. (7:45)
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