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This coming Saturday, voters in Bosnia go to the polls as part of the effort to put their war-torn country back together. They'll be choosing men and women to represent them in a collective presidency, a house of representatives, assemblies for both the Muslim-Croat federation and Serb Republic, and councils for each canton. Linda talks about the upcoming election with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in the northwest Bosnian city of Banja Luka ((BAHN-yuh LOO-kuh)). Banja Luka is home to the opposition parties who will contend for the vote with the nationalist party running the Serb Republic.

where Hurricane Fran has destroyed crops and devastated farms throughout the region. Many of the crops were just about ready to be picked when the storm hit last week.

Robert talks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a Professor of Communication and the Dean of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss the impact of speeches made last night at the Democratic National Convention by Vice-President Al Gore and Connecticut senator Christopher Dodd.

Argentina agrees to pay a settlement decided by a Los Angeles court this week to compensate a victim of its "dirty war." NPR's Mandelit Del Barco reports.

The Democratic National Convention has attracted only a smattering of protests and most of these have been held in small ``official'' protest areas, for which groups had to apply for a city permit. It's a far cry from the thousands of angry protesters, whose confrontations with police in Chicago twenty-eight years ago marked the last Democratic convention in the city. NPR's Scott Simon reports.

which threatens to derail the Dayton peace process. The names of candidates for local office have been removed from ballots on the grounds that municipal elections are 'not feasible' at present. Under the Dayton accords, local elections were to take place at the same time as national elections. The elections begin today with the casting of absentee ballots by Bosnian refugees. Voting inside Bosnia is scheduled for September 14th.

Commentator Joan Steinau Lester, like many other gays and lesbians, is going to hold her nose and vote for Bill Clinton in November. She's unhappy about the waffling, and the mixed signals he's sent America's gays -- Clinton says he's for equal rights, but he's been cautious about showing it.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the debate over how to train and certify the next generation of teachers. An estimated 2 million new teachers will enter the nation's schools in the next decade, and many educators favor national standards and other measures as a way of ensuring that the next generation of teachers is qualified. But others say a state and local approach is more appropriate, and some feel making we need to loosen up the rules for teacher certification as a way of encouraging people to get on the job training in the profession.

reports on the redevelopment of the Potsdamer Plots the central business area in Berlin.

While the overwhelming majority of black voters vote Democratic, some feel that the Democratic party takes them for granted and does not address all of their concerns. At the same time, the Republican presidential ticket -- Bob Dole and Jack Kemp -- says it will make a special effort this year to reach out to black voters, who have sometimes been written off by the Republican Party. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports.