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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Zaire's capital Kinshasa that many people there are increasingly anxious about the refusal of anti-government rebels to agree to a ceasefire. Kinshasa has long been the center of the non-violent opposition to President Mobutu Sese Seko. As the rebels steadily advance, many residents of the capital say the guerrillas should agree to a truce and allow previously scheduled elections to go ahead.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with Susan Tolchin, author of "The Angry American" and professor of Public Administration at George Washington University, and Susan Carrol, senior research associate at the Center for theAmerican Woman and Politics at Rutgers University about the gender gap in this year's presidential election.

In Belgrade, anti-government demonstrators filled the city center for the 19th consecutive day. Their mood is described as euphoric. They appeared confident that their complaints are getting through to the government of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on one of the most important groups leading the protest: university students.

Austria's center-right People's Party scores a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections as its former coalition partner, the far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider, slumps. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with reporter Bethany Bell.

Tucked away in the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum in Stevenson, Washington, is the largest collection of rosaries and prayer beads in the world; more than 4000 of them, including one that belonged to John F. Kennedy and another sixteen feet long. The collection is so big it was featured in Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Harriet Baskas has the story.

Linda talks to Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, about recent polls indicating Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Gore has slipped in the race with Republican George W. Bush. Voters seemed to agree that Gore won last week's debate with Bush, but they thought Bush came across as more personable and honest.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Robert Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, about how the post-presidential election limbo is being covered. He says it's getting more airtime than the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Princess Diana's death, or the Columbine High School shootings, but that this story is more anchored in detail than sensationalism.

As the 5 p.m. ET deadline passes for counties to submit their hand recounts to Florida's secretary of state, NPR's Howard Berkes and Wade Goodwyn report from inside and outside the Palm Beach emergency operations center, where the canvassing board continued to count ballots after asking for an extension of the deadline until Monday morning.

When the election is finally settled, what will happen to the butterfly ballots, polling stations and chads at the center of attention? Some of them may end up at the Smithsonian Institution. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Larry Bird, curator of the Political History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, who's heading to Florida on a collection mission.

The State of California has become the first in the nation to give gay and lesbian parents the same tax benefits as heterosexual parents, allowing a sole wage earner to claim "head of household" status on his or her state income tax. Linda talks with Shannon Minter, Senior Staff Attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco, California.