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Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with William Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute, about the remaining two-and-a-half weeks of the presidential campaign.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the future f Fair Park. First built in 1936 for the Texas centennial, Fair Park contains ne of the world's largest collection of art deco buildings which have been eteriorating for years. Recently, Texas pledged millions of dollars to have the uildings restored.

discredit the President but says so far, they have come up with little proof to back up.

Former O.J. Simpson criminal defense attorney JOHNNIE COCHRAN JR talks with Terry Gross about his new book "Journey to Justice." It is published by One World Ballantine Books. The book is co-written by Los Angeles Times reporter Tim Rutten. Cochran discusses his role in winning Mr Simpson a not-guilty verdict in the slayings of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

reports on an upcoming Iranian film called, "Sandstorm" about the aborted attempt to resuce the US hostages back in 1980.

- We hear tape of people attending today's annual display of the massive AIDS quilt on the Mall in Washington. One family tells us they came to the Mall to unfurl for the first time a quilt panel in honor of their mother, who recently died of the disease.

- Also in Washington today, thousands of Hispanic Americans converged on the White House to protest recent legislation that restricts the rights of legal and illegal immigrants. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the mood was festive but the demonstrators acknowledged they face an uphill battle to recapture lost political ground.

- Jackie speaks with Al Cardenas (car-DANE-us), vice chairman of the Florida state Republican Party. Cardenas outlines the GOP's strategy for winning Flordia, long a Republican stronghold but now a crucial state that is up for grabs in the November election.

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to some members of Congress about he need to pay attention to constituent services. The late Tip O'Neill once aid that "all politics is local," and most of today's politicians still find hat true.

Robert talks with Kurt Eichenwald -- a business reporter with the New York Times -- about tapes which have surfaced that reveal Texaco executives discussed an impeding Federal discrimination suit. In his story in this morning's paper, Eichenwald details what the executives said regarding purging and shredding documents. In addition, he writes, the executives berated the company's minority employees with racial epithets. The tapes were recorded in August 1994, and some of the remarks were published in today's New York Times.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the unprecedented amount of campaign money the parties have amassed in this election cycle, and the new ways they are spending it. The parties have found new loopholes in the federal election funding laws and exploited old ones more than ever before.

Commentator Martin Bernstein tells how type-A's can survive through this long weekend of baseball-watching on TV.