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- 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"

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 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 talks to Patricia Wells-- author of a new cookbook called "PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE." It is a book of recipes inspired by her famouhouse in France. Wells encourages cooks to use fresh ingredients and not to muck it all up. If you're cooking eggplant - she says - it should taste like eggplant!

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

- 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.

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.

Tomorrow, Election Day, political races across the country will be decided and many more local propositions will be placed before the voters for ratification. Public attention has been focused on just a few of them. Robert and Linda talk about aspects of the election season that have escaped widespread public notice: a candidate for the Colorado state senate who has thrown her support behind her opponent; a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey who does not speak English, and others.

Ed O'Loughlin reports from Johannesburg that former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and other former police officials were acquitted of murder charges today. Malan was the most senior member of the old apartheid government to stand trial for human rights abuses, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and fifteen co-defendants of the 1987 death squad killing of a family. The ruling angered many who had fought white minority rule, while former apartheid officials praised it as a vindication.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the threat posed to Haiti's fragile democracy by thousands of disgruntled former soldiers. There have been attacks against government targets by soldiers who are without jobs or money, and several former members of the military have been arrested on suspicion of plotting against the government of president Rene Preval.

- 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.

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.

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 Marianne Jennings says businesses use all kinds of terms these days to describe cash demands. Not only is there a "shelf-space slotting fee" that food manufacturers pay to grocery retailers for prime shelf placement, and publishers pay "display fees" to book chains for prime window and floor spaces. Jennings says that whatever the fees are called, she thinks they're just bribes.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that two weeks after the revived Palestinianian-Israeli peace talks began with promises of around-the-clock negotiations with a US negotiator, the talks have now stalled and the US mediator, Dennis Ross, has decided to fly home. Israelis blame Palestinians and the Palestinians blame the Israelis.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin is recuperating from a seven-hour heart bypass operation. NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on what this period of recovery will mean for President Yeltsin and Russia.

NPR's David Baron reports that a massive flood of black water and house-sized icebergs burst out of a glacier in southeastern Iceland today, spilling across a 20-mile swath of coastline. The flood has destroyed a road, bridges, and utility lines, and it's disrupted fishing off the coast. Scientists had predicted the flood would occur, after a volcano erupted under Iceland's largest ice cap. But the torrent is bigger and is growing faster than anticipated.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a group of renegade advertisers who are breaking with the pack to OPPOSE pitching tobacco to children. Last August, the FDA established new limits on cigarette advertising. The tobacco and ad industries have formed a coalition to fight those limits. Now this breakaway group is launching an ad campaign to convince their advertising compatriots to get behind the government.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has found NO link between the introduction of crack cocaine and CIA support of contra rebels in the 1980's. The Department was investigating charges first raised in a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News, saying that the CIA had supported contras who were involved in the crack trade. The sheriffs spent 2 months investigating the charges.