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The Fantastiks celebrated its 36th anniversary yesterday, making it the world's longest running musical. Critic Bob Mondello examines why some broadways shows run long...while others have a short life on the stage.

The future of Jerusalem and Jewish settlement on the West Bank was one of the most difficult issues faced today in Taba Egypt at the peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The talks entered their final phase today, as NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr remembers former CIA Director William Colby, who headed that agency at a unique time in intelligence history.

SIMON/ ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE: SCOTT SPEAKS WITH APRIL TYLER, THE PRINCIPLE AND TEACHER OF MARYLAND'S LAST ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE, WHICH NOW FACES CLOSURE BECAUSE OF A LACK OF STUDENTS.

AN ESSAY BY SCOTT ON THE POLITICS AND PREFERENCES OF REPORTERS.

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.

Marius Benson reports that Deputy President F.W. De Klerk and his National Party announced today that they will pull out of South Africa's government of national unity at the end of June. The move comes the day after parliament ratified the first post-apartheid constitution. After the next election in 1999, the constitution says the government will be based on majority rule, and De Klerk said the National Party wants to get an early start on establishing itself as a credible alternative to Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports on today's presidential election in Uganda, the first fair election there in over thirty years. President Yoweri Museveni (yo-WHERE-ee moo-SEH-vuh-nee) is expected to win easily--while he has permitted candidates to challenge him, he has forbidden political parties from participating. Museveni--who has ruled Uganda since seizing power ten years ago--says his "no-party" system is a good democratic model for Africa, because it prevents ethnic and religious strife. The president's opponents say it's a thinly-veiled way to keep himself in power.

from Hurricane Opal six months ago. The area attracts about 7 million tourists a year. Most of the panhandle's vacation spots are open again for the new season, but some businesses are still struggling to get back on their feet.

The Subway Vigilante was back in court today, eleven years after he made headlines for gunning down 4 black teens on a New York subway. Bernhardt Goetz (Gets) was in court for a pretrial hearing for 50-million dollar civil suit filed by one of who was shot. Robert Siegel speaks with National Law Journal reporter Andy Blum about why this case continues more than a decade later.