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caucus venues in Iowa. He reports on the debate and the issues on the minds' of voters at a Des Moines City precinct.

Robert talks with Linda Wertheimer who is in New Hampshire following the campaign. She assesses the mood of Granite State, as well as the fortunes of the Republican presidential candidates in the run-up to the state's primary next week.

hostage crisis in the Russian region of Dagestan.

The Zairean government today announced it was closing a refugee camp that is home to almost 2-hundred thousand Rwandan refugees. NPR's Michael Skoler reports that the government is trying to force the refugees to return to Rwanda. Many of them have been living in the camp for more than one year, and Zaire now says it can no longer afford to take care of them.

Commentator Michele Mitchell says the GOP has and has had for a long time a very sophisticated machine in place to attract young voters. Since the days of Richard Nixon, the Republicans have reached out to young people on campus, through lunches, happy hours and other events. The Democrats have no such machine, and in big states like California, the average age of registered Democrats is more than 65.

We ask a number of writers - specialists in mystery, science fiction, children's literature and magic -- to apply their craft to the unravelling of the case of a stack of subpoenaed Rose Law Firm documents that mysteriously appeared in a limited access White House residential room after they were long thought to be lost.

In New York City, dozens of pyschiatrists are volunteering to find and help homeless people suffering from mental illness. Reporter Richard Schiffman reports that they they are seeking out these non-traditional patients in some very non-traditional ways.

Film critic Bob Mondello reviews Clifton Taulbert's film memoir, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored. The drama chronicles Taulbert's coming of age in the segregated South.

Linda talks with NPR's senior political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold, who is traveling in Iowa, about how publisher Steven Forbes is being received in the state. Forbes, who's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has been waged mostly over the airwaves, has spent the past two days touring the state by bus and meeting potential primary voters. While he's been trying to sell his flat tax plan, he's increasingly questioned about his views on a broad range of other issues, like abortion.

Danny talks with NPR's Lynn Neary, who attended a meeting of conservative Christian voters in Memphis, Tennessee today. All the presidential contenders from both parties were invited to attend, but President Clinton, and more interestingly, Bob Dole, did not show up. Lynn says that Dole, who said he had a scheduling conflict, may have stayed away because he is not terribly popular among conservative Christian voters...or because he may not believe he needs their support to capture the Republican nomination for presidency.