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Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

The day after the vice presidential debate, both President Clinton and his Republican opponent Bob Dole met up with their running mates on the campaign trail. Both claimed victory for their partners, but from there their appeals to voters diverged. Dole stepped up his attack on Clinton, while the Democrat scarcely mentioned the election at all. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold in Ohio with the Dole campaign and Brian Naylor in Tennessee with the Clinton campaign.

This year, the citizens of California have a dozen initiatives on the ballot in addition to their candidates for local and national office. These initiatives, if passed, create laws for the state without being passed through the state's legislature. Linda talks with David Magleby, a professor of political science at the Brigham Young University, about the history of the initiative process in state of California, and why the state (in some ways) leads the country in voting to enact new laws.

- NPR's Tovia (TOH-vee-uh) Smith reports that the traditionally Republican state of New Hampshire COULD go Democratic this year. President Clinton is running well ahead of Bob Dole there. Also, Democrats are running well for state offices.

- Daniel speaks to Khulu Sibiya, the Editor in Chief of City Press, a leading newspaper in South Africa, about the recent revelations that have surfaced during the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Several top ex-leaders including the former President of South Africa Pieter W. Botha are alleged to have had a major role in killings during the years of apartheid. The allegations were made this week during confessions by several high ranking police officers who admit to taking part in the killings.

about the incarceration of Susan McDougal. The former business partner of President Clinton declined to cooperate with the court or independent Whitewater prosecutor, Kenneth Star.

- Daniel talks with Edward Behr (BEAR) about the origins of Prohibition. America was "dry" from 1920 until 1933. During those 13 years Americans were unable to legally buy or sell alcoholic beverages. Behr says that, in part, Prohibition was white Anglo-Saxon America's attempt to suppress the new immigrants. Edward Behr is the author of "Prohibition:Thirteen Years That Changed America"

With the reitrement of Rep. Pat Schroeder, the race to eplace her is between Democrat Diana Degette (duh-GET), and Republican Joe ogers. Rogers is hoping to become the state's first AFrican-American member of ongress, but it is an uphill struggle. NPR's Mark Roberts reports.

- NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a new immigration law that restricts and at times limits federal courts from reviewing complaints brought against the government. Immigration opponents praise the new immigration law while critics say it could be unconstitutional.

Liane Hansen speaks with "cyberpunk" author Bruce Sterling bout his latest novel, "Holy Fire" (Bantam Books). The book describes a uturistic gerontocracy where life-extension techniques and plastic surgery llow humans to live to nearly 200 years.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Turkey on that country's concerns about the fighting between Kurdish factions in neighboring northern Iraq. The Turks have a Kurdish problem of their own, fighting a nationalist group they say is using the north of Iraq to launch attacks on Turkish targets. While Turkey wants a resolution to the Kurdish fighting, it doesn't necessarily back United States efforts to mediate an end to the conflict.

Linda speaks with Bill Paxon (R-NY), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has produced and paid for new ads that urge voters to prevent Democrats from controlling both the White House and Congress. The ads are being interpreted as an implicit acknowledgement by the GOP that Bob Dole may lose the presidential election. Paxon says that this interpretation of the ad is wrong, and that the GOP still has confidence that Dole can win the election.