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in one of the most talked-about photographs of all time. The picture was of her as a nine-year-old child running naked and screaming from her Vietnamese village after a napalm attack. She will take part in ceremonies Monday, Veterans Day, at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington.

their image of manufacturing low-quality products by sending care packages to the East during the holiday season.

about the current state of the hostages in Lima, Peru. The Red Cross delivered Christmas cakes to the captives who will spend Christmas Eve away from their families in the company of heavily-armed guerillas.

Reporter Barbara Mantel (man-TELL) tells the story of the teenaged Garcia girls. They arrived in October from the Dominican Republic and now live with their fatehr in Queens divorced. This is the story of their adjustment to the U.S. They are making good progress in their ESL classes...but the 17 year old is worried about learning the language well enough to attend college. At lunch time they sit with other Spanish speaking kids...although they say confrontations between English speaking kids and Spanish speaking kids are common.

against the Yen is causing Japanese businesses to look hard at their overseas investments and wonder whether it is cheaper to start doing more business at home again.

The preliminary results of a new measurement of the so-called Hubble Constant, taken by radio telescopic means at Cambridge University in England is 42. The Hubble Constant determines the speed at which galaxies are receding from each other, and thus tells us the age of the universe from the time of the Big Bang. It so happens that Douglas Adams, in the book and radio series A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1978 had a massive computer calculate the meaning of life and the answer was: 42.

Commentator Mickey Edwards wonders whether Republicans will keep up their contentious adversarial relationship with the Democrats, or whether 1997 will bring a new era of cooperation.

to address the controversy over illicit campaign contributions to the DNC at a news conference today. The Republicans are stepping up their calls for investigations of the affair.

We catch up with some of the closest and most contested election results. Neil Tickner of member station WHYY reports on the race in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, where a recount is being held because the winner gained victory by only ten votes.

on states to suspend executions, `unless and until greater fairness and due process prevail,' in cases involving capital offenses. The ABA's House of Delegates issued the call yesterday at the ABA's national convention in San Antonio.