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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.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole campaigned in California today and spoke in support of a state referendum to end affirmative action programs. He also continued his criticism of the Clinton White House.

With the polls showing that Bob Dole is gaining little ground on President Clinton in this year's presidential race, GOP strategists are deciding how to save their congressional candidates from duplicating the top of the ticket's lack of success in appealing to voters. NPR's Phillip Davis talks with Republican state leaders about how they hope to get their voters to the polls to support the party's ideals as well as their congressional candidates. In Texas, for example, Republican strategists are running congressional campaigns that are independent of the presidential race, stressing the negative aspects of what it would be like to have both Congress and the White House controlled by Democrats; in Florida, campaign advisors are focusing on voter turnout rather than on the Dole-Kemp message.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.