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The Republican Party spent the last four days talking about their vision for America and their view of the Clinton administration. Tonight, NPR's Brian Naylor sorts the fact from the fiction in their rhetoric.

Newspapers are being squeezed by the corporations that own them. Simon looks at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a newspaper which is struggling to maintain its high standards in a time of forced cutbacks.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on yesterday's Reform Party onvention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Perot was expected to win, and he did y a substantial margin.

Scott speaks with Clinton campaign advisor Lynn Cutler about this weeks' Republican National Convention.

Jon Kalish reports on the crackdown in New York's Chinatown on charlatans practicing medicine without licenses.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on the race for a senate seat etween Republican governor William Weld and Democratic incumbent John Kerry. eld made news last week when his pro-choice abortion views kept him off the peaker's podium at the Republican convention.

Commentator Joe Loconte (luh-KAHN-tee) talks about George Washington's 1796 farewell address, which was published in the Hartford Courant two hundred years ago today. Loconte says that Washington's emphasis on morality and virtue are as relevant in this year's political campaign as they were then. Joe Loconte is Deputy Editor of "Policy Review: The Journal of American Citizenship."

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the rush to learn English among California's legal immigrants. Those who are receiving government assistance - especially the elderly - are trying to become citizens, before California cuts off welfare payments to all legal immigrants.

- N-P-R's Jennifer Ludden reports on the delayed efforts of Zaire to hold democratic elections. In 1990, President Mobutu Sese Seko (moh-boo-TOO say-SEE say-KOH) mandated that Zaire hold democratic elections in 1995. Elections were never held and, one year later, reform groups are calling on Mobutu to follow his 1990 mandate. In calling for elections, reformers are identifying Mobutu and his corrupt government as the primary reason for the delay in Zaire's transition to democracy. But Zaire's troubles are not limited to governmental corruption; logistical and organizational problems abound.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the 8th district congressional race in Michigan.