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An art museum in Connecticut is training youngsters to lead museum tours. Several museums train high school students, but the Aldrich Museum is training grade-schoolers. The theory is: who better to explain art to kids than their peers? There's a twist at the Aldrich - it's a contemporary art museum, so the kids have to try to explain stuff that most adults don't understand. Phyllis Joffe reports.

NPR's Jim Zarolli reports on the merger between Nynex and Bell Atlantic. which will be the second largest phone company in the U.S. With a stock market value of $51 billion, more than 127,000 employees and 38 million customers, the company would dominate the market on the Eastern seaboard. The deal comes on the heels of a merger of two other so-called "Baby Bells," Pacific Telesis and SBC Communications.

NPR's Tovia (TOE-vee-uh) Smith reports on a fight in Connecticut and a number of other states over how best to care for mentally retarded adults. A number of states have closed down their mental instituions, favoring instead smaller home based programs. But some in Connecticut defend the state's largest such institution, the Southbury Training School...saying it is not the cold cruel place critics charge it is.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that international relief agencies are agonizing over whether to return to Liberia. Most aid groups were forced to abandon the country last month, when renewed fighting shattered the country's fragile peace. Mostly teenage militias ransacked relief agencies' offices and stole their equipment and supplies. Aid workers worry that even if the situation stabilizes and they do return to Liberia, there are no guarantees that things won't deteriorate again.

In northeastern Mississippi where two black churches were burned last week near the town of Kossuth, both black and white residents have rallied to support the black congregations. Race relations have been generally smooth in Alcorn County, but local leaders fear the fires may have been set to create conflict between the races. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that 'most-favored-nation' status for China...known as M-F-N...is shaping up as Presidential campaign issue. Pat Buchanan and other leading Republicans are calling for revocation of M-F-N. President Clinton wants to extend it. Bob Dole is caught in the middle. In the past Dole is on record favoring M-F-N for China and yet he wants to differeniate himself from his rival for the presidency.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the Federal Trade Commission has filed suit to block a proposed merger between the Rite Aid and Revco pharmacy chains, which would have created a chain of stores much larger than any other in the Northeast and Midwest. This is one of the few efforts to by the federal government to block a merger in the retail sector, and the FTC was joined by several state attorneys general.

NPR'S Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the trial of a former Nazi SS Captain charged with one of Italy's worst massacres during the second World War. Erich Priebke ((preeb-keh)) was extradited to Italy last November from Argentina. He stands accused for his part in killing of 335 men and boys near Rome in 1944.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow where U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher met today with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Christopher is in Russia to organize next month's nuclear issues summit between Yeltsin and President Clinton. Christopher says the talks made "excellent progress" toward a total ban on nuclear testing and "substantial progress" on a treaty controlling conventional forces in Europe.

Mary Kay Magistead reports from Taiwan that President Lee Teng-hui won today's election, the first fully democratic vote in the island's history. Lee, who was appointed president eight years ago by Taiwan's parliament, gained more than 50 percent of the vote, an unexpectedly large margin. The vote took place in the face of threats from China, threats in the form of missile tests and military exercises.