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Linda talks with NPR's Joe Palca about new dietary guidelines released today by the federal government. For the first time, the guidelines, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, say that a completely vegetarian diet and moderate drinking can be healthful.

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.

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.

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.

NPR's John McChesney reports the online service Compuserve says it plans to reopen access to nearly 200 sexually-oriented discussion groups to all but its German customers by the end of the month. Compuserve closed the forums after prosecutors in Germany said some of the material in the groups violated German obscenity laws.

DID LAST WEEK'S ELECTION TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT HOW NEXT YEAR'S VOTE MIGHT GO? NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR EXAMINES THE QUESTION. 4:00.

THIS WEEK, IN COMMEMORATION OF WEEKEND EDITION'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY MONTH, WE ARE RE-AIRING A STORY ABOUT NATASHA DUDINSKA (doo-DIN-skuh), A CZECHOSLOVAKIAN STUDENT ACTIVIST THAT REPORTER ALEX CHADWICK MET SIX YEARS AGO WHEN HE WENT TO COVER THE ANTI-COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE.

SCOTT REVIEWS THE YEAR'S TOP STORIES THROUGH ESSAY AND SOUND.

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.