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and security in Russia and other former republics of the Soviet Union. With the breakup of the USSR, thousands of nuclear warheads and tons of weapons-grade material were left stockpiled in numerous facilities without adequate security. There is growing fear that terrorists will obtain such material. On Friday in Moscow, President Yeltsin, President Clinton and the leaders of the other G-7 industrialized nations will gather to discuss ways to minimize the danger.

Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick (guh-RELL-ick) said today that "a serious set of problems" has been found in the FBI crime laboratory, but she said it was too soon to say whether remedial steps would prevent harm to a limited number of prosecutions. NPR has obtained copies of summaries of interviews conducted by the Justice Department involving the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. One of the problems reported was that the crime scene may have been compromised when the memorial service for victims of that bombing was allowed to take place on the site before all the evidence had been gathered. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

Robert Siegel speaks with Carrie Scott, the Moscow correpondent for the British Weekly "The Sunday Times," about official Russian documents obtained by the Times that indicate a large amount radioactive material is missing from a nuclear waste storage site in the wartorn republic of Chechnya. The Sunday Times story, published this week, says that government officials in Moscow are aware that quanitities of plutonium-239, uranium-235, cesium-137 and strontium-90 are unaccounted for. Scott says there is strong suspicion in Russia that the material was removed by Russian soldiers stationed in Chechnya.

The National Security Archive is a repository for intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Its contents include papers related to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra affair --and, more recently, to pre-9/11 warnings about Osama bin Laden. It is led by Tom Blanton.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new rules for reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants undercut a 2000 proposal that had the support of environmental and public health groups. Critics say the new regulations allow an increase in pollution in some states in the short term. A copy of the regulations was obtained by NPR.

The authority of the White House was invoked in decisions being made at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by its chairman, according to e-mails obtained by NPR. The chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson, has repeatedly denied accusations that he has attempted to politicize the agency.

As President Biden continues his trip through the Middle East, Thursday he and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a declaration that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon.

The legal clinic for older adults allows senior-level law students to provide legal assistance to people 60 or older who could not obtain representation on their own.

Only three states — Illinois, New Mexico and Washington — allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. Other states have recently implemented practices aimed at banning immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally from operating motor vehicles.

With desperation growing, looting is on the rise. But even guns could not keep some Haitians from their mission to obtain much-needed essentials from the rubble.