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The contest between veteran Republican Senator Larry Pressler and his Democratic challenger Rep. Tim Johnson features what most people would define as everything good and everything bad about politics today. The candidates present voters with clear cut ideological choices on issues from taxes...Pressler is solidly in favor of "smaller government"...to the Farm Bill (Senator Pressler is highly in favor of the changes that were made in the Farm Bill, while Rep. Johnson has been less enthusiastic). Both candidates have held serious issue debates, even as they lob harshly negative ads at one another. NPR's Brian Naylor traveled to South Dakota and filed this report.

NPR's Martha RAddatz reports that the Pentagon has had to deal with delays in its attempts to identify the number of US soldiers that may have been exposed to chemical weapons during the Persian Gulf War. It seems that the computer model the government is using may need more work.

Susan talks with UCLA professor of Soviet Studies Richard Anderson about the recent turmoil in Russia with Boris Yeltsin's sacking of his national security chief Alexander Lebed. (4:30) (outcue: (STAMBERG) "Richard Anderson is professor of Soviet Studies at UCLA."

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including a University of California student, Republican residental candidate Bob Dole and President Bill Clinton.

Lobbies - NPR's Kathy Schalch reports that the environmental lobby is focusing its campaign contributions on about 12 Congressional races, in an effort to make for a more environment-friendly legislature after the November election.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr takes issue with a recent magazine rticle which diminishes the historical import of President Franklin Delano oosevelt. October is "Roosevelt History Month".

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta reports on a ossible change in Georgia's voting pattern. Traditionally a Democratic state, he issue of tobacco may sway some rural voters away from President Clinton to epublican challenger Bob Dole.

Neal speaks with Dr. Geoff Marcy of San Francisco State University about his discovery, which was announced this week, of a new planet.

Neal offers a theory of the mysterious disappearance, in New York, of two film animation characters.

. A judge will consider Hinckley's request to leave St. Elizabeth's prison one day a month to visit his family. Hinkley shot former President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an assassination attempt. (7:31