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Host John Ydstie talks to Hanan Ashrawi , spokeswoman for the Palestinian Authority about Palestinian bargaining positions at the Camp David Summit. She says Chairman Arafat places particular importance on the status of Palestinian refugees and on the future of Jerusalem.

After the return of millions of refugees, some of them responsible for the genocide, hundreds of people who witnessed the slaughter have been killed.

Aid workers have abandoned northeastern Zaire where they were caring for some 150 thousand refugees. The UN has decided foreign relief staff are not safe even in Kisingani as rebel forces advance on the Zairean military stronghold. NPR's Michael Skoler has been following the events from Nairobi. He speaks with Korva Coleman.

NPR's Sunni Khalid recently visited a Kurdish refugee camp. He'll talk with Robert about the encampment along the Iran-Iraqi border that UN officials said was shelled today from the Iraqi side of the border, killing four and wounding eleven.

five-thousand troops to eastern Zaire. The force will be a part of an international intervention force to protect relief supplies and help repatriate Rwandan refugees.

- As rebel forces advance on the eastern Zairian town of Kisangani, NPR's Michael Skoler reports that United Nations aid officials have flown into rebel-held territory to establish aid stations for fleeing refugees. The idea is to coax them back to their homes in neighboring Rwanda and Burundi, but that's going to be difficult without a ceasefire first.

on the Security Council's hesitance to launch military interventions given its history of messy peacekeeping missions like Somalia. Most recently, the Council has resisted appeals to send troops to aid refugees in Zaire.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem reports Israel's Prime Minister Barak unveiled a new interim peace proposal today, but it was quickly rejected by the Palestinians. Barak offered the Palestinian statehood in parts of the West Bank and Gaza, but suggested putting off decisions on some of the key issues including the status of Jerusalem and the fate of the Palestinian refugees.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with Florentina Chiu, a refugee from Nicolae Ceucescu's Romania. As part of Morning Edition's month-long series on Loss and Recovery, Ms. Chiu talks about the loss of her home and country and the first 15 years of her new life in America.

The Department of Homeland Security insists there are no plans to transfer Haitian migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Guantanamo. But the base has been used to house Haitian refugees before.