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NPR's John Ydstie reports the unemployment rate remained unchanged in October at 5.2%. But the economy did manage to generate a healthy number of new jobs -- business payrolls were up 210,000 for the month. There were several other reports on the economy today...the last batch of information before the Presidential election next week.

- Daniel talks with NPR's White House Correspondent Mara Liasson about the response of the Clinton campaign to questions about DNC fund-raising tactics. President Clinton says he and the Democratic National Committee have played by the rules in their fund-raising efforts.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta eports on a hotly contested race in the newly-created 4th district. Incumbent emocrat/African-American Cynthia McKinney won the seat in 1992 when the ongressional district was 60-percent black. As a result of a Supreme Court uling on redistricting last year, there are no longer any majority-black istricts. Now, she and her opponent, moderate Republican John Mitnick, are ying for votes in one of the most diverse districts in the country.

Defense Secretary William Perry said today the U-S has not yet determined who was responsible for the June 25 bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. airmen. "We have reached no conclusions about who was responsible for this," Perry told reporters in response to questions about Washington Post report that Saudi authorities had arrested 40 people and were convinced that Iran backed a broad conspiracy in the attack. NPR's Martha Raddatz has a report.

Ina Jaffe reports on a ghoulish store Los Angeles. Necromance is its name, and it specializes in bones, heads and organs of all kinds of animals - including people.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with Susan Tolchin, author of "The Angry American" and professor of Public Administration at George Washington University, and Susan Carrol, senior research associate at the Center for theAmerican Woman and Politics at Rutgers University about the gender gap in this year's presidential election.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a possible merger between MCI and British Telecom.

Scott talks with historian Stephen Ambrose of the Univ. of Wisconsin about the historical significance of the upcoming election. (6:00).

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new Baz Luhrmann film, "Romeo and Juliet." The script is faithful to the language of the Shakespeare play...the characters all speak in Elizabethan English...but the setting has been moved to the present-day. Mondello says that the imagery and use of modern sets is somewhat discordant and unsettling, but that the story has lost none of its power.

through Pennsylvania and Ohio, two states which appear to be leaning heavily in his favor.