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at Emory University in Atlanta, about Republican gains in the Deep South. Southern states that were once dominated by Democrats are solidly Republican.

campaigning in Florida.

NPR's Steve Inskeep looks at new ads released by Republicans today to counter an aggressive ad campaign launched by the AFL-CIO in the districts of several dozen Republicans running for Congress. The union ads have made several GOP incumbents nervous and angry, and they've charged that their records are being distorted. The latest AFL-CIO round of advertising has come in the form of what the union describes as ``electronic voter guides.''

That's right...Mr. "Naked Lunch," Beat Generation survivor...is a painter and collagist. He's been doing this quietly for nearly half a century. Using cutup newspapers and magazines, paint and photography, his goal is to create a new, visual language with his art in the same way he tried to create a kind of random storytelling in the pages of his books. Burroughs also works in a medium that brought him a certain notoriety in the 1950's - guns - specifically, shotgun-blasted boards (they're painted too). The first-ever retrospective of Burroughs' visual art is now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Documentary film producer PAUL STEKLER. He co-produced the new film series, "Vote for Me - Politics in America" a look at how American culture is reflected in local politics. This PBS series, to be aired October 28 and 29, examines the various things candidates will do in their campaigns to be elected. STEKLER, with his co-producers received a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award for a series done in 1993, entitled "Louisiana Boys, Raised on Politics." Also interviewed at the same time was MAGGIE LAUTERER, the subject of one "Vote for Me" episode. She's a former journalist and first-time candidate who ran for Congress in North Carolina, and lost

about President Clinton's proposals for targeted cuts and credits as they are with Bob Dole's tax-cutting proposals.

Commentator Bob Garfield learns that Kuwait is planning to erect a 130-mile long elctric fence on its border with Iraq. He calls for an estimate for the job from a contractor in the American heartland.

-- the coroner says the woman, whose death he attended was not terminally ill.

yesterday the two countries expelled one of each other's diplomats...

President Clinton today signs legislation that will make it easier for people to keep their health insurance. Linda talks with NPR's Joanne Silberner about what the new law is, and is not, designed to accomplish.

The Department of Education today released its annual report on the demographics of the nation's schoolchildren. The number of students is at an all-time high, prompting concerns that school construction is not keeping up with the "baby boom echo," the increase in students resulting from many baby boomers having children later in life. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

In Brazil, the government of President Fernando Cardoso is addressing the issue of police violence. In recent years, Brazilian police have killed scores of innocent civilians in the course of their battle against drug dealers and other criminals. But NPR's Nina Teichholz reports the government is facing opposition from a legal establishment that learned its draconian methods of maintaining order during the country's days of military dictatorship.