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Reform Party presidential candidates Richard Lamm and Ross Perot will appear together this weekend at the Maine and Virginia Reform Party conventions. The two will face off at the party's national convention next month, but are currently courting party members to put their names on a nominating ballot due next week. Ballots have been sent out to more than one million people who signed petitions to put the party on state ballots around the country. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR's Lynn Neary remembers some of the 230 passengers and crew on TWA flight 800, which crashed Wednesday night off Long Island. They included a Houston woman who fought for victim's rights, an English professor from upstate New York who had just won an award for excellence in teaching and a televion producer who was heading to France for his last assignment before leaving ABC televisiion. He was traveling with his wife and daughter.

to stop the wave of arson striking black churches across the South. Yesterday,President Clinton hosted governors from seven Southern States to discuss the matter. And both houses in Congress are moving to make it easier to prosecute those who set churches on fire.

Reporter Melissa Block on Long Island, N.Y. tells Noah Adams about the reaction of people in the Moriches, some of whom witnessed the explosion of the TWA plane that crashed last night.

Religious and charitable leaders held a news conference this morning... hours before the House vote on the G-O-P welfare reform bill. They voiced their opposition to the current package, calling it "immoral" and saying it will push "1-million more" children into poverty. The coalition of groups wants President Clinton to veto the measure if it makes it through Congress in current form. Many of the groups represented at today's news conference operate assistance and feeding programs that receive federal money.

President Clinton has chosen a new chief of Naval Operations to replace Admiral Mike Boorda, who committed suicide last month. The president is nominating Admiral Jay Johnson, who has been the Navy's number-two officer for the past few months. NPR's Martha Raddatz has more on Johnson's career.

about the U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball team. Better known as the "Dream Team", the squad is heavily favored to win the Olympic gold medal. Last night, for example, they crushed the Chinese Olympic team by a score of 119-58 in an exhibition match -- Moran says it's the type of result that's come to be expected of them.

the navy divers have working in on the ocean floor in the search for clues and wreckage...

of Atlanta's Centennial Park this morning after being closed three days following Saturday's bomb.