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Campaigning today in Colorado, President Clinton called for tougher measures to collect child support payments from deliquent parents. These would include using the Internet and photographs posted in Post Offices around the country to track down so-called deadbeat dads. He also called for Congress to pass a welfare reform bill. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports the World Bank has announced plans for a sweeping reorganization that will require significant cutbacks. Seven hundred bank staffers may see pink slips and many of the bank's specialists will be sent to live in the countries they serve. Critics give the bank praise for trying, but question whether the plan is too ambitious.

Today marked the closing of four days of peace talks being held in South Africa between the Zaire government and rebels seeking to overthrow President Mobutu Sese Seko. No ceasefire decision was reached, but there were areas of common agreement over the need for a ceasefire and democratic elections. It's not known when further meetings will be held. The BBC's Richard Downes reports.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that a small group of survivors of the Tuskegee, Alabama syphilis study want an apology from the federal government. The U.S. Public Health Service studied more than 600 black men starting in the 1940's. Part of the study included not treating the men for syphilis, even though the government knew antibiotics could treat the disease.

reporter Anthony DePalma about developments in the investigation into the bombing of a U.S. military compound in Saudi Arabia last year. A suspect is being held in Canada and may be deported to the U.S., but the Justice Department isn't sure it wants him.

NPR's Dean Olsher reports that the Russian government has decided to bring the Romanoff jewels... which were being exhibited at museums throughout the United States... home to Moscow early. The Russians say that they want the jewels returned so that they can be displayed at the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow... but the abruptness with which the tour was cancelled has left museum officials puzzled.

NPR's Michael Shuster reports on the Clinton Administration decision to reorganize the State Department. The restructuring will bring the independent Arms and Disarmament Agency and the US Information Agency under the umbrella of the Secretary of State. The move, long sought by Senator Jesse Helms and other Congressional Republican conservatives, was made in hopes of encouraging the Senate to approve the Chemical Weapons ban when it comes to a vote on next week.

Linda talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about news from Lima, Peru, where Peruvian forces apparently stormed the Japanese ambassador's residence, where rebels with the Tupac Amaru movement have been holding 72 hostages since December 17th. Loud explosions and gunfire could be heard for several minutes, and there are reports that as many as 40 of the hostages escaped from the compound.

Linda talks with reporter Alex Emory about developing news in Lima, Peru, where Peruvian forces have stormed the Japanese Ambassador's residence. Tupac Amaru rebels have been holding 72 hostages since December 17th. Many of the hostages escaped during the siege.

Deborah talks with Ze'ev Chafets, a columnist for the Jerusalem Report, about a poll taken a week and a half ago on the new housing development in East Jerusalem. Opinion on whether to continue development of the housing was split for the most part along ideological lines. Today's violence, he says, is indicative of the fact that ideologues on both sides of the issue are now digging in their heels for a fight.