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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole campaigned in California today and spoke in support of a state referendum to end affirmative action programs. He also continued his criticism of the Clinton White House.

With the polls showing that Bob Dole is gaining little ground on President Clinton in this year's presidential race, GOP strategists are deciding how to save their congressional candidates from duplicating the top of the ticket's lack of success in appealing to voters. NPR's Phillip Davis talks with Republican state leaders about how they hope to get their voters to the polls to support the party's ideals as well as their congressional candidates. In Texas, for example, Republican strategists are running congressional campaigns that are independent of the presidential race, stressing the negative aspects of what it would be like to have both Congress and the White House controlled by Democrats; in Florida, campaign advisors are focusing on voter turnout rather than on the Dole-Kemp message.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.

about the many open congressional races and how they might affect the fall elections.

NPR'S Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stad) reports that the Cambodian government says it has sent troops to help the Khmer Rouge breakaway faction retake a village it lost yesterday to hardline members of the group. This caused hundreds of Khmer Rouge soldiers and civilians to flee into Thailand.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton today addressed the delegates of the National Baptist Convention in Orlando, as he began the second day of a two-day campaign swing through Florida, a state he hopes to win in November. He talked to the crowd about new Labor Department figures showing the lowest unemployment rate in seven years, but also asked the church representatives to offer jobs to people trying to get off welfare.

Budapest's renovated Dohany Street Synagogue reopened yesterday after five years of renovation. It is Europe's largest synagogue. In 1989 commentator Andrei Codrescu visited the house of worship, quite by accident, and wrote an essay from there about how moved he was by the service. He says he has roots on his mother's side in the culture and could feel the emotional tie.

President Clinton, yesterday, campaigned in the South. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

- Host Cory Flintoff speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb, who is in northern Iraq in the aftermath of Iraqi forces' move into the region. Goldfarb says Iraqi forces are dug into position just inside the Kurdish safe-haven zone and that United Nations officials are concerned about Turkish plans to establish a security zone in another portion of northern Iraq near the Turkish border

Scott speaks with Octavio Roca, music and dance critic with the San Francisco Chronicle. Twenty-five years ago the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts in Washington D-C opened. Mr. Roca was a student at the time, and remembers that event.