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Hmmm - I figured it would be as simple as what you just said but I must have been having a brain fart because I couldn't locate the template I needed to use.
There is a template for Big Story, Moderate, Random News, etc. but not one for Recent News.
I just figured out that I needed to edit news_top.php
I changed
$news['teaser'] = xoops_substr(strip_tags($story->hometext()), 0, $options[3]+3)
to
$news['teaser'] = xoops_substr(strip_tags($story->hometext()), 0, $options[3]+3)." <nobr><a href=".XOOPS_URL."/modules/news/article.php?storyid=".$news['id'].">"._MB_READMORE."</a></nobr><br /><br />";
and it worked ok