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Robert Siegel speaks with an Israeli who will vote for the Likud party in tomorrow's election. Ofer Mizrachi (OH-fair miz-RAH-hee), a Sephardic (seh-FAR-dik) Jew, lives with his family in a Tel Aviv suburb close to the border between Israel and the West Bank. He says he is afraid of the final deal that Shimon Peres will make with the Palestinians.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the outcome of the first round of Russian elections is not surprising, and that exit polls indicate that there is hope for democracy in Russia.

Rhino Records presents a 4 CD set... "Cowabunga: The Surf Box." (Rhino Records R2 72418) It's a retrospective of surf music from 1960 to 1995.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Cairo on the conclusion of the Arab summit and Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to it. Arabs called on Isreal to continue the peace process and warned of consequences if they don't. Netanyahu accused the Arabs of dictating the terms for peace.

about their series on slavery in Sudan which ran earlier this week in the Baltimore Sun. The two of them traveled to the southern part of Sudan to investigate whether slavery actually exists there. To prove that it does,they bought two African boys from an Arab slave trader and then freed them. Sudan's fundamentalist Islamic government denies that slavery is practiced there.

Last week Seattle got a small taste of disaster when an earthquake rumbled briefly, upsetting household pets and knocking crockery off of shelves. But some people are never satisfied. For Commentator Michael Hood, terra firma isn't all its cracked up to be. He's waiting for the big one.

A House committee opened hearings today into the White House's improperly obtaining FBI background files on top Republicans. While the committee looks into the matter, the White House has appointed Charles Easley, a career civil servant originally appointed during the Reagan administration, to be the new head of security. He'll run the office which obtained the files. NPR's Peter Kenyon has more on the story.

Noah talks with Brad Stillman, the telecommunications policy director for the Consumer Federation of America, to discuss Westinghouse Electric's three-point-nine billion dollar acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting and what it means for consumers.

Today, India's Prime Minister P.V. Narashima Rao said he would resign. This after his ruling party suffered huge losses in national elections. Robert Siegel talks with Edmund Roy, a correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in New Delhi, about the defeat of the largest and oldest party in India's democratic history.

Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.