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a look at new Food and Drug Administration regulations regarding cigarette sales that went into effect today. The rules require retailers to ask for a photo I.D. for all customers buying cigarettes who look younger than 27. Failure to comply could cost store owners $250. President Clinton argues the new rules will actually help retailers, since they won't have to guess the age of those buying cigarettes.

Liane speaks with actress Elizabeth Perry, who's appearing in "Sun FLower," a one-woman play about suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Perry wrote the work, which is currently running at Washington's Vat Theater. The show moves next to New York.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the opening of two days of debate in the Senate on the Chemical Weapons Convention. The vote for ratification...which requires a two thirds majority...looks as though it will be close. It takes place tomorrow. The treaty got some unexpected supported today from former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

Storyteller Carmen Deedy explores the unexpected in "Twisting in the Wind of Semantics," a story about how a small miscommunication between herself and her mother lead to chaos.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Charles Mingus. As an instrumentalist, he became known as "the Segovia of the bass" and championed the unwieldy instrument as a solo voice in jazz groups. He became one of the first bassists to lead his own group. But perhaps he made his greatest mark as a composer. He was inspired by Ellington and carried that great composer's ideas to new levels in the nearly 300 works Mingus left behind. Karen Michel (mih-SHELL) has this report on the life and music of one of America's true jazz innovators. (8:00) ((ST

The Democratic National Committee has released 10-thousand pages of documents relating to former fundraiser John Huang. The papers were subpoenaed by Congressional investigators who are looking into improper donations. Among the memos is a list of so-called "must considers," the rolls of party fundraisers that the DNC urged the incoming Clinton administration to consider for jobs. Huang was included on the lists for jobs at the Treasury, State and Commerce Departments. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

as the Moscow summit meeting between the two nations ends today. Washington has given the summit its blessing, hoping that an alliance between China and Russia would be beneficial to American relations with both.

Seemingly arcane exercises in the days and weeks ahead will in fact represent – and may even resolve — real conflicts over national issues of enormous importance.

Mexico is suing U.S. gun manufacturers over the flood of illicit guns in the country. The government wants compensation for the "massive damage" that this flow of illegal weapons has caused.

Thursday marks 40 years since former President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers. That dealt a serious blow to the American labor movement.