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NPR's Ted Clark reports that 'most-favored-nation' status for China...known as M-F-N...is shaping up as Presidential campaign issue. Pat Buchanan and other leading Republicans are calling for revocation of M-F-N. President Clinton wants to extend it. Bob Dole is caught in the middle. In the past Dole is on record favoring M-F-N for China and yet he wants to differeniate himself from his rival for the presidency.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the Federal Trade Commission has filed suit to block a proposed merger between the Rite Aid and Revco pharmacy chains, which would have created a chain of stores much larger than any other in the Northeast and Midwest. This is one of the few efforts to by the federal government to block a merger in the retail sector, and the FTC was joined by several state attorneys general.

HOME ALIVE is the name of a new CD and a Seattle self-defense

NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER REPORTS ON THE DIFFICULTIES U-S OFFICIALS FACE IN TRYING TO SECURE AND SAFEGUARD NUCLEAR MATERIAL IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on United States officials' worries that the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs are still in power four months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The accord calls for Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic to step down. The two have been indicted by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. Arrest warrants have been issued.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

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SCOTT HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT INDIANA, AND THE HOOSIERS' OBSESSION WITH BASKETBALL.

Noah Adams talks with Karen Potter a resident of Lincoln, Montana. She is th eopwner of the Blackfoot Market and is the head of the Chamber of Commerce. She talks about fellow Lincoln resident Theodore Kacynski, who she describes as a hermit, but Ms. Potter also says the town is the type of place where resident respect others' privacy.

into the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.