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a Democrat opposed to abortion. He want the anti-abortion position reflection in the Democratic party platform.

have reached an out-of-court settlement under which the state no longer will shackle prisoners together on chain gangs. The Southern Poverty Law Center had sued Alabama in federal court, charging the practice violated the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Under the agreement, Alabama will continue to use prisoners on road crews, and their ankles will be shackled together, but they won't be chained to other inmates.

The Supreme Court has ruled against the football players union, which was trying to sue the National Football League. The justices say the players may not sue on anti-trust grounds if the league imposes certain salary levels, after a collective bargaining impasse. The court says the players' recourse is to the National Labor Relations Board, not the federal courts. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports that the ruling affects all unionized workers, not just the football players.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the Senate's vote to reconfirm Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, amid criticism by some Senate Democrats that Greenspan has waged a stingy monetary policy that they say has held back economic growth.

of Yeltsin and his main Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how the kind of jet engine that exploded on a Delta flight over the weekend works, and how such incidents can occur.

A government study released today says that driving a cab is the most dangerous job in America. The second most dangerous job is being a sheriff. NPR's Melissa Block reports on how people who hold these jobs are reacting to this news. She talks with one New York cab driver who was held up at gunpoint several years ago says for three months after the attack he was too scared to drive his cab; now he never drives it at night. And a sheriff in Washington State says he's not surprised sheriffs have the second highest on-job homicide rate; he says there's a continual struggle to make the job safer, and more funding is the answer.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports from the White House on President Clinton's first meeting with the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Though Clinton favored the election of Netanyahu's more moderate opponent in last May's election, both he and the new Prime Minister sought to patch up their differences and reaffirm traditional US-Israeli solidarity.

at the International AIDS conference going on in Vancouver, Canada this week...

In Illinois, a former military base has been transformed into a unique community of foster families. Each family gets a house rent-free and a yearly salary. Brent Wolf of W-I-L-L in Urbana, Illinois reports that although fifty percent of the children in the community have been abused or neglected, the program is thriving because of the attentiveness of the adults.