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on the West Bank and Gaza. Yesterday was the official start of the campaign for the 88-member council that will govern the newly-autonomous regions. The elections are January 20, 1996.

of nine atoms of anti-matter, previously possible only in science fiction. Scientists call it an important development in physics.

the island nation and mainland China. Taiwan has increased its defense budget to face what it calls a growing threat from China. China threatens to invade Taiwan if it ever declares independence.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews

the sugar program has remained untouched by cutbacks in government price supports. Critics say it's fattened the pockets of only a few farmers, and has kept the price of the commodity artificially high.

At a Congressional hearing today the General Accounting Office released a report on some of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's extensive world travel. The report says the department has very sloppy accounting and cannot account for $250-thousand in spending. NPR's John Nielsen reports defenders say the report is full of holes while other supporters worry that overseas business will be lost if the secretary is forced to curtail her travel. The controversy regarding Secretary O'Leary's management is nowhere near over.

As a child, commentator Bill Harley had never been exposed to beets or John Coltrane because his father didn't like them. When he first tried beets and heard Coltran'e music in college, he didn't like them either. But recently, he tried beets and liked them. Then he listened to Coltrane again and like that, too.

Liane speaks with Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, laywright, screenwriter and novelist Jules Feiffer about his new children's ook "A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears" (Harper Collins).

WAS IT REALLY A STAR THAT DREW THREE WISE MEN TO BETHLEHEM ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS. MAYBE NOT, A MODERN-DAY ASTRONOMER TELLS SCOTT. AND WE HAVE A READING FROM T.S. ELIOT'S "JOURNEY OF THE MAGI."

SIMON/THREE STOOGES: SCOTT TALKS WITH LAWYER BELA LUGOSI JR. --- WHO ARGUED A CASE INVOLVING THE HEIRS OF THE THREE STOOGES AND WHO OWNS THE RIGHTS TO THE COMEDY TEAM'S MERCHANDIZING REVENUES.

Linda talks with Washington Post reporter Christine Spolar who is several miles north of the Sava River in Croatia. The bridge over the river, built by U.S. Army engineers from the 502nd company, is now carrying hundreds of trucks per day from Croatia into Bosnia.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Michigan and vaccinations stalled, some businesses are asking customers to show proof of vaccination. But there are unvaccinated residents who call this discrimination.