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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean at the nnenberg School for Communication, about talk radio: who listens, who calls in, nd how it affects voting patterns.

LETTERS: Liane Hansen reads mail from listeners.

Linda and Noah discuss the opening of the thirty-sixth Republican National Convention in San Diego, California. Republicans are hoping that this meeting will showcase their ideas and their candidates...and can help jump-start the Dole campaign. Patrick Buchanan's withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Dole earlier today has helped pave the way for a greater party unity...which is what the convention is hoping to accomplish.

Daniel speaks with Jeanie Mahoney about an electronic pendant she wears as protection against her former husband who used to abuse her. Mahoney and other women across the country have been given these pendants by police. If they push a small button located on the pendant, the police are alerted to go immediately to the wearer's home.

Fifty years ago this week, 19 high-ranking officials of Nazi Germany were convicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. For the record, we play an excerpt from a newsreel account of the sentencing of Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess and others.

Daniel speaks with Cara De Silva, who edited the book "In memory's Kitchen." It's a cookbook written by women who died in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. The manuscript was handed off to several people over the years before it made its way to the daughter of the woman who started the book.

In the first criminal action taken against a government official in the Ruby Ridge case, a senior FBI agent was charged today with obstruction of justice. In 1992, FBI agents shot and killed the wife and child of a white separatist during a siege of his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. There are reports that the agent charged today may have agreed to co-operate with prosecutors in their investigation of government action during the siege. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

to try to agree on a formula to end the refugee crisis in eastern Zaire.

- Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he would attend the Washington summit, his government declarted today that they would reopen the controversial archeological tunnel near Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City -- the same tunnel whose opening last week sparked the current round of violence. NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the latests developments on the ground.

Critic Bob Mondello reviews Neil Jordan's latest film, named for the Irish freedom fighter who organized and fought against England's occupation after the Easter Uprising of 1916.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem that after another round of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at Taba today, there is still no indication that progress on the main issue of an Israeli withdrawal from Hebron has been made. The Israeli and Palestinian negotiators express very different views of how the talks are going.

NPR's David Welna reports from Managua on Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua. The two leading candidates are Daniel Ortega, former Sandinista president, and Arnoldo Aleman, the conservative former mayor of Managua. Aleman denies Ortega's charge that he represents a return to the days of the late dictator Anastasio Somoza, despite his popularity among supporters of the former Contra rebels. Aleman has vowed to cancel, or force compensation for, the thousands of property confiscations carried out by the Sandinistas when they were in power.