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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.

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.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will get under way Tuesday as forecast, but the talks will begin with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meeting separaely with President Clinton before any face-to-face meeting between the two Middle East leaders can take place. Even as the meetings in Washington were being prepared, however, US administration officials were lowering expectations that even the previously-agreed-to Oslo Accords could be reactivated.

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

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the fight, last weekend, between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and what it seems to have done to revive the sport of boxing.

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.

The Supreme Court heard two cases today dealing with voting districts and their impact on minority voter rights and the prospects for minority candidates. One case was an appeal of a congressional map in Georgia drawn up by a three-judge panel after the Supreme Court declared an earlier plan unconstitutional. The other case relates to school board districts in Louisiana. Some opponents of districts designed to give minorities a boost argue that the re-election of a number of African-American members of Congress last month, despite their white-majority districts, proves special districts are not needed. Proponents argue that they were helped more by the advantages of incumbancy, and needed minority-majority districts to get elected in the first place. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

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.

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