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The town of West Hartford, Connecticut, is running out of burial space. NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel approach to the problem, which secures more burial space while providing the living with a new spot for their picnics.

Scott speaks with Peter Landau, co-author (with Shepherd Campbell) of "Presidential Lies: The Illustrated History of White House Golf." (Macmillan)

two years of ideological and budgetary attacks from Republicans in Congress, much to the dismay of conservatives.

about the implications for Moscow of last night's crash of its Mars probe into the Pacific ocean.

Noah talks with Nick Thorpe, a BBC reporter in Bucharest, Romania, about the surprising results of the recent Romanian elections. A former geology professor and a political novice, Emil Constantinescu, upset the incumbent president. Now, the president-elect must try to bring the former Soviet bloc country towards a market economy. Thorpe says the populace showed deep emotion in victory rallies - of the sort Thorpe has not witnessed there since the revolution of 1989.

that they plan to join forces to create by far the world's largest aircraft maker. The new company will emerge in mid-1997, if stockholders and government regulators approve of the merger.

Robert talks with Lisa Jardine, author of Worldly Goods, which looks at the Renaissance and the development of knowledge. Jardine says it was merchants and the marketplace which spurred book publishing more than scholars or the church. In Venice, commercial booksellers of the day were undercutting the prices of the books produced by the church.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a group of renegade advertisers who are breaking with the pack to OPPOSE pitching tobacco to children. Last August, the FDA established new limits on cigarette advertising. The tobacco and ad industries have formed a coalition to fight those limits. Now this breakaway group is launching an ad campaign to convince their advertising compatriots to get behind the government.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that President Clinton has agreed in principle to contribute as many as several thousand US troops to a proposed multinational effort to get food and medicine to about a million refugees in eastern Zaire. A White House spokesman said that once such a force is established, perhaps one thousand American troops would deploy in Zaire, helping provide security at a key airport and along special corridors set up to get aid to the mostly Rwandan refugees cut off by recent fighting. The spokesman said most of the US forces would be outside of Zaire, acting in support of the aid operation.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Goma, Zaire that shelling forced the suspension of the first attempt to deliver aid to the city today. Relief groups stopped passing out food after four shells slammed into the city. The shells presumably were fired by Rwandan Hutu rebels holed up in a refugee camp outside Goma. The attack came after Zairean Tutsi rebels--who control Goma--fired on an unidentified plane which flew over the city. The incidents underline how hard it will be to organize a massive aid effort for the one million mostly Rwandan refugees stranded by the recent fighting in eastern Zaire.