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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including several observers of Hurricane Fran. Also, President linton, Bob Dole and British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkin on the crisis in raq.

Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten (JELL-ten) in arajevo about next week's elections in Bosnia. The vote - laid out in the ayton peace accord that ended four years of war in Bosnia - has been hreatened by problems and irregularities. Regardless, the U-S wants the lections to go ahead as scheduled.

This campaign season we will be airing candidate stump speeches as they travel around the country seeking support. This is an excerpt of an address Bob Dole made last week, on Labor Day, at a rally in St. Louis. In the speech, Dole pledges to cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time. He says his economic plan is pretty simple---it's time to give a break to everyone who pays taxes in America. He says there are three good reasons to cut taxes: too many families have both spouses working just to pay taxes, tax cuts will lift the economy and finally, the American people have waited too long for a tax cut---so he promises a 15% tax cut, a $500 per child tax credit, to cut capital gains by 50%, and to repeal the current tax on social security benefits.

Adam Hochberg reports from Raleigh, North Carolina that people are still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Fran. Hundreds of thousands of people in the state are still without power, stores are facing huge losses and nerves are fraying.

Commentator David Brooks discusses the difference between President Clinton's and Bob Dole's views on school choice. Brooks says that Catholic schools have proven to be especially effective at educating at-risk inner city students, and the needs of these kids should outweigh the concerns of the National Education Association.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Diyarbikir (dee-YARR-buh-keer) in Southeastern Turkey that there are new reports of heavy fighting between rival Kurdish militias in northern Iraq, as Turkey declares the establishment of a buffer zone along its borders with Iraq to prevent attacks from yet another Kurdish rebel group.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says although presidential candidates like to make lofty promises--cutting taxes, creating a new health care system---most of what they say they will do as President is really done by the Congress.

In the final segment of the series, NPR's Howard Berkes reports on one of the most unusual and hazardous professions--diving for sea cucumbers. An exotic delicacy in Asia, sea cucumbers cling to the bottom of Puget Sound, where divers brave frigid waters, strong currents and gradual bone necrosis to bring them up. No one knows much about these creatures, and measures to protect them have limited the fishery to a few determined divers.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that there was renewed fighting between Palestinians and Israelis today after Israeli troops stormed the Muslims' holy Temple Mount during Friday prayers, in an incident that left three Palestinians dead and dozens of others wounded. Despite this outbreak of violence, there were signs that both the Palestinians and the Israelis were seeking to avoid the sort of bloody confrontations that had raged for the last two days. Both sides seemed to be trying to step back from the brink of outright war, and to get back to peaceful negotiations about their differences.

One might imagine that being a wedding photographer is a fairly pleasant job, where one is surrounded by happy people. Commentator John Rosenthal discovered, though, that is not always the case. He describes a wedding where the groom's buddies put a ball and chain around his ankle. The groom thinks this is hilarious, until the bride demands he take it off or she will call off the wedding.