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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.

Liane Hansen speaks with "cyberpunk" author Bruce Sterling bout his latest novel, "Holy Fire" (Bantam Books). The book describes a uturistic gerontocracy where life-extension techniques and plastic surgery llow humans to live to nearly 200 years.

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.

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!

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

- 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.

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.