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Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta reports on a ossible change in Georgia's voting pattern. Traditionally a Democratic state, he issue of tobacco may sway some rural voters away from President Clinton to epublican challenger Bob Dole.

Comedian Will Durst sees the futility of getting real news out of a convention, but he loves the scene surrounding the whole event anyway.

The federal government's budget deficit was a big campaign issue four years ago, but this time around it seems to have faded, partly because both parties have taken balanced budget pledges, but also because the deficit is much smaller now. NPR's John Ydstie reports that budget experts say the deficit may be down, but it's not out.

Susan talks with UCLA professor of Soviet Studies Richard Anderson about the recent turmoil in Russia with Boris Yeltsin's sacking of his national security chief Alexander Lebed. (4:30) (outcue: (STAMBERG) "Richard Anderson is professor of Soviet Studies at UCLA."

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including a University of California student, Republican residental candidate Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton.

The president is riding "The Twenty-First Century Express," a train taking him through the mid-west on his way to the Democratic National convention in Chicago. Mr. Clinton's whistle-stops along the way allow time for him to spell out some of the issues he would make priorities in a second term, among them, literacy, the environment, and gun control.

NPR is participating in a program along with other televesion and radio news outlets that provides free airtime to the Presidential campaigns of Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Tonight's message comes from Presidential challenger Bob Dole.

Neal speaks with Dr. Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State University about his discovery, which was announced this week, of a new planet.

Neal offers a theory of the mysterious disappearance, in New York, of two film animation characters.

Neal talks with Hugo Gassioles who just completed a 3- and-a-half-year, 12,000 mile, horseback journey from his native Argentina to the U.S.

-Danny talks to Neil Silberman, author of "Between Past and Presest," about the politics of archaeology. Silberman says the recent clashes in Jerusalem over a deicison to open a tunnel alongside the biblical Temple Mount are only the latert manifestation of the use of archeology as a weapon in the war for national identity and sovereignty He provides similar examples from Greece, Bosnia and. . . lower Manhatrtan.

government's ineffectual handling of a disastrous oil spill...and the country's consequent political difficulties.