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Commentator Sam Fulwood says the fight in Prince George's County, Maryland over inviting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to speak to an eighth-grade class is a public spectacle of official cowardice, racial politics and divisive posturing. He claims it is a sad example of how race is discussed and used in this country.

Ailene Leblanc of member station WHQR reports that at least 14 Marines died early this morning when their helicopters collided during military maneuvers at Camp Lejuene. The cause of the collision is under investigation. The Marines were part of US-British war games simulating a crisis in the Persian Gulf.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the continuing fighting Liberia.

Commentator Jerry Landay teaches "issues in television" at the University of Illinois. He examines the use of paid political commercials. Paying for these spots is prohibitively expensive and means that some candidates, like those for state offices, spend all their time fundraising instead of pressing the flesh and talking about issues. The networks handing free time to presidential candidates is a step in the right direction, but that does nothing to help the little guy out there running for the state legislature.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Cambridge, MA on a plan to integrate school children by income level in addition to race.

updates the standoff in Montana between the FBI and the Freemen.

Deborah Amos reports that an American court is considering a case against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadich. Karadich has been indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, but no trial can take place there unless Karadich is arrested. He's still at large in Bosnian Serb territory, but Amos says that won't hamper the American court proceeding.

Daniel talks with Colonel Wayne Forbush about the latest news in Liberia. Forbush is the Marine Commander in Charge of protecting the United States Embassy in Monrovia. Forbush says though a ceasefire is currently in effect, fighting still continues.

Over a million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year. But there is no consensus over what should be done, or what to tell young people to keep them from becoming sexually active or getting pregnant at an early age. NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports from North Carolina that each community in that state gets to decide whether to encourage teens to abstain or to give them as much information as possible about sex and contraceptives.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that since the execution last November of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-wiwa [seh-roh-WEE-wah], the US has been talking about what other measures it could take to put pressure on the Nigerian government. There is some support in Congress for more moves against Nigeria's military rulers, but President Clinton does not appear willing to push for the sanction that would hurt the most: an oil embargo.