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on the $35 million campaign the AFL-CIO is planning this year to defeat 75 House members -- almost all of whom are Republicans. Labor hopes to reassert itself as the important voting block it once was. But many union members voted Republican in the last election and getting them to follow the union leadership's guidance on election day is a formidable task.

signed by China and Russia on nuclear weapons, space exploration and trade during Russian President Boris Yeltsin's 3-day trip to China.

that President Clinton will testify by videotape as a defense witness in the Whitewater trial. The tape will be played in court, but the White House is concerned about what could happen to the tape after the non-televised trial. There are precedents in this case... Former presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter both testified in court by videotape, and both tapes were sealed by the ruling judge.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on what's at stake in the up-coming Indian elections that begin Saturday. Voters, which could number almost 6-hundred million, are turning out to cast ballots for one-third of the seats of Parliament. Voters of all classes and castes are said to be disgusted with the government's corruption and question the benefits of democracy.

NPR'S Kathy Lohr reports that authorities with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have arrested two men in connection with the seizure of bomb-making equipment about 90 miles outside Atlanta, Georgia. Despite earlier reporters, federal officials say there is NO evidence there was any plot to explode a device at the Summer Olympics.

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, NPR's Dan Charles reports that similar nuclear plants continue to operate throughout the former Soviet Union. More than a dozen plants with similar design flaws remain in operation, despite calls to shut them down. The biggest impediment is money to pay to replace the power the plants generate.

whether English should be made the official language of the United States. Tonight, we conclude our series with a commentary form Ruben Martinez, who is living in Mexico City, for a perspective from the other side of the border.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports on the battle in Congress over legalized gambling.

Linda talks with Harley Shaiken, a labor specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, and David Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan, about the strike at General Motors that has shut down 21 assembly plants across the country and threatens to escalate into a national ordeal. Cole talks about the industry's push to become leaner and their use of "just-in-time manufacturing." Following the lead of Japan, GM now keeps only a very small supply of critical components, like brakes, in stock. Shaiken explains how this practice gives union strikes considerable leverage because a small number of strikers can paralyze a large organization.

Commentator Mark DePaolis says that sooner or later, we are going to have to deal with one of the most serious threats to female health: women's shoes. They are too small, too pointy and too tall. But the rememdy is draconian -- ugly shoes.