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NPR's Vicki Que reports that the group trying to bring the "French abortion pill" to American women is having trouble raising the money it needs. The Population Council, a non-profit group in New York, set up a private, non-profit company to market RU 486 in the United States. But the company is having trouble raising the estimated $20 million it needs, in part because the drug is so controversial.

seem to be closer to reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron. The development came amid controversy over French President Chirac's visit to Israel yesterday.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.

NPR'S Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stad) reports that the Cambodian government says it has sent troops to help the Khmer Rouge breakaway faction retake a village it lost yesterday to hardline members of the group. This caused hundreds of Khmer Rouge soldiers and civilians to flee into Thailand.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole campaigned in California today and spoke in support of a state referendum to end affirmative action programs. He also continued his criticism of the Clinton White House.

With the polls showing that Bob Dole is gaining little ground on President Clinton in this year's presidential race, GOP strategists are deciding how to save their congressional candidates from duplicating the top of the ticket's lack of success in appealing to voters. NPR's Phillip Davis talks with Republican state leaders about how they hope to get their voters to the polls to support the party's ideals as well as their congressional candidates. In Texas, for example, Republican strategists are running congressional campaigns that are independent of the presidential race, stressing the negative aspects of what it would be like to have both Congress and the White House controlled by Democrats; in Florida, campaign advisors are focusing on voter turnout rather than on the Dole-Kemp message.

about the many open congressional races and how they might affect the fall elections.

The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports on the slaughter of 200 elephants at a salt marsh in the Congo. Although elephant poaching decreased after harvesting ivory was banned by international agreement, the world's shrinking stocks of ivory are making poaching increasingly profitable.

Budapest's renovated Dohany Street Synagogue reopened yesterday after five years of renovation. It is Europe's largest synagogue. In 1989 commentator Andrei Codrescu visited the house of worship, quite by accident, and wrote an essay from there about how moved he was by the service. He says he has roots on his mother's side in the culture and could feel the emotional tie.