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whether to propose greater restrictions on the ownership of handguns. The initiative comes in reaction to the massacre at a school in Dunblane, Scotland last March.

Executive Director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, about next month's state legislative elections. Following the '94 elections, Republicans controlled both legislative chambers in 18 states, Democrats controlled both houses in 16 states, while the two parties split control in the other 16.

the Persian Gulf War to try and get further information about illnesses connected to the destruction of an Iraqi chemical weapons depot in 1991, which is now believed to have contained nerve gas.

The BBC's David Willey reports from Rome on a decision by Italy's highest court that Erich Priebke must be re-tried. Priebke, a former Nazi officer, has been accused of killing civilians in a 1944 massacre. He's in jail awaiting retrial.

that will delay FCC rules aimed at promoting competition in local telephone markets. In August, the FCC ordered local phone companies to lease space on their lines at big discounts. The local companies sued, complaining that the outside companies using their lines would have an unfair advantage.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the potential approval of RU 486 will definitively change the face of the abortion debate.

NPR's Vicki Que reports that the group trying to bring the "French abortion pill" to American women is having trouble raising the money it needs. The Population Council, a non-profit group in New York, set up a private, non-profit company to market RU 486 in the United States. But the company is having trouble raising the estimated $20 million it needs, in part because the drug is so controversial.

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plays tonight. The American Basketball League has teams in eight cities and features some of the best female players in the world. Others have failed before, but organizers believe this league will thrive on the coattails of the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic team, and the increased popularity of the college game.

The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports on the slaughter of 200 elephants at a salt marsh in the Congo. Although elephant poaching decreased after harvesting ivory was banned by international agreement, the world's shrinking stocks of ivory are making poaching increasingly profitable.