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NPR's Michael Skoler reports on what awaits the nearly two million Rwandan refugees who choose to go home from camps in Zaire and other countries. While many have been told they will be killed or jailed in revenge for the genocide of 1994, most are able to go back and resume their lives. But many do have problems--there have been killings, and thousands have been thrown in overcrowded jails, sometimes on the flimsiest of evidence.

The internet may test our rules for what on-line democracy means..but our commentator Stuart Cheifet says this industry may provide us with an ideal candidate for president.

who refused to wear a blue beret and other United Nations insignia when assigned to a U.N. peacekeeping force in Macedonia last fall. Court martial preparations began in January, but yesterday his civilian lawyers argued in U.S. District Court in Washington that he should be given an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the diplomatic tangle with China over its failure to curb counterfeiting of American intellectual property. Computer software, CDs, and numerous other easily copied goods continue to pour out of China a year after the Chinese government agreed to crack down on this trade. American companies say they're losing billions, but they don't speak with one voice. Microsoft, for example, wants sanctions, but Boeing fears the Chinese will retaliate by buying planes elsewhere.

Commentator Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says the anti-terrorism bill that just passed the House is a sham. He says it does nothing to prevent terrorism because it is a piece of toothless legislation. Foxman adds there is no contradiction between freedom and security.

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH JOHN HAYNES, A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HISTORIAN, ABOUT RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THAT SHOW HOW WIDESPREAD SOVIET SPYING WAS IN THE U.S. DURING WORLD WAR TWO.

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