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The Long Beach Naval Yard in California is being leased to a Chinese shipping company. Critics say China got a very special deal and are wondering why. Evidence now suggests that a representative of that company went to the White House as part of a group led by controversial fundraiser Johnny Chung to hear a radio address by President Clinton. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a plan to build a new type of atom-smashing device. Nearly 200 lasers would be combined and aimed at an object, in the hopes of producing nuclear fusion. Supporters say the facility would replace the need for underground testing of current nuclear weapons. But opponents say it's just another big-science boondoggle.

NPR's Sylvia Paggioli reports from the Albanian capital of Tirana that the new multi-party government there has deployed a new police force to reestablish law and order in the country after weeks of chaos and anarchy. But Poggioli says the new cops bear a striking resemblance to Albania's old secret police.

In San Francisco today, jury selection began in a case that pits two wineries...Gallo and Kendall-Jackson...against each other in an infringement case. Kendall-Jackson says that Gallo is misleading its customers by copying features of its wine. Ancel Martinez of member station KQED in San Francisco reports.

NPR's John McChesney reports that a group of computer experts have succeeded in cracking the digital code that protects numbers transmitted over cellular telephone lines. These are not the first flaws found in cellular telphone security, but industry backers say that technology can address these issues, and that there are other layers of security that have not been cracked.

Anita Bugg of member station WPLN in Nashville reports on the conflicting court rulings that have kept adoption records closed in Tennessee, despite a law passed last year that opened the records. Adoptees say they should be able to see the records, but many birth parents continue to oppose the law, saying it invades their privacy.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the technical problems Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut are having on board the Russian space station Mir. The latest involves the failure of primary and backup life-support systems -- and raises the question of how much risk space officials in each country are willing to take before they order the crew to abandon ship.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London on how the mass media in Great Britain dealt with today's anniversary of the Dunblane shootings. At the request of the Dunblane families, the media stayed away from commemorations. In the House of Commons, contentious debate was set aside to pay tribute to the the memory of the children.

- When President Clinton included $5 billion in federal funds for the repair of the nation's crumbling schools, administration officials thought they were addressing an obvious educational need. But with the administration's educational spending propisals about to be introduced on Capitol Hill, NPR's Vicky Que reports a wall of Republican opposition is forming.

- NPR's David Welna reports on the latest developments in Ecuador's political crisis. After weeks in which there was no functioning president, the army stepped in today to order the country's congress to devise a clear succession mechanism. The country's vice president will rule in the meantime while the deposed president, officially declared mentally incompetent, continues to insist he is still in charge.