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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

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that a hardline Muslim group known as the Taliban, or students, has taken control of Afghanistan's capital and has executed the country's former president. Neighboring Pakistan says it is sending a delegation to recognize the new government but Western governments are trying to determine how to respond to what appears to be the world's newest Islamic state.

Neal talks with Hugo Gassioles who just completed a 3- and-a-half-year, 12,000 mile, horseback journey from his native Argentina to the U.S.

will hear arguments today about the constitutionality of Arizona's "English-only" law which mandates no other language be used in official state business.