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After enduring a series of fiery campaign ads run by Steve Forbes and Bob Dole in last winter's primary, voters in Iowa have asked for a cleaner campaign this fall. Bill Menner from member station KUNI in Cedar Falls, Iowa reports that candidates---so far---are responding to the electorate and have produced ads based on issues, not on personal attacks.

NPR'S Kathy Lohr revisits the unsolved case of the Olympic Park bombing. Richard Jewell is pushing for federal officials to acknowledge they have ruled him out as a suspect; meanwhile, the Justice Department is searching for the source who leaked Jewell's name to the news media.

The FBI has arrested several members of a West Virginia militia group who federal officials accuse of planning to blow up the FBI fingerprint records facility outside Clarksburg, West Virginia. The facility houses the FBI's collection of fingerprints and other identification resources, which help state and local police identify crime suspects. NPR's Chitra Ragavan has a report on today's arrests.

with Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson tugging at the delegates' heart strings.

a forum for Catholics to discuss their differences with Rome within the Church. Since it's creation, the project has been criticized by both conservative and liberal Catholics.

Music reviewer Charles de Ledesma takes a look at the latest book from David Toop, one of the most erspected music journalists in Britain. Ocean of Sound and its accompanying CD trace the expansion of music around the globe in the twentieth century, and focus on how new technology and the concept of the "global village" have changed the things we listen to...from the ways in which we can listen to music to the ways we make music in the digital era. (8:00) (S

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.

"CLINTON-IZING": In the wake of the U.S. elections last week, NPR's ichael Goldfarb reports from London on efforts some British politicians are aking to make their political campaigns more "American", including the possible iring of former White House employees.

Robert Siegel talks with Howard Rosenberg, TV critic for the Los Angeles Times, and Robert Thompson, Associate Professor of Television at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. They discuss the broadcast from the Democratic Convention, last night's address by Hillary Clinton, and how it compares with the address by Elizabeth Dole during the broadcast of the Republican Convention.

-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.