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in California yesterday, enjoying the momentum from his debate performance on Wednesday.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that with the New York Yankees in the World Series for the first time since 1981, Yankee fans are thrilled. Some optimistic ticket-seekers were still waiting in line today outside Yankee Stadium. Scalped tickets, many of them counterfeit, are being sold for hundreds of dollars; ticket brokers are getting as much as $1800 for box seats. Souvenir stands are doing landmark business on Derek Jeter t-shirts and Yankees caps. And most fans say owner George Steinbrenner should quit talking about moving the team, and leave the Bronx Bombers in the Bronx, in the House That Ruth Built.

This evening, NPR News will begin to feed unedited campaign messages produced by the Clinton and Dole campaigns to make use of the free air time offered by a number of television and radio outlest. In today's segment, we'll air segments by both President Clinton and challenger Bob Dole.

Steven Smith of Minnesota Public radio reports on the challenges to creating viable businesses in Black communities. African Americans spend 400-billion dollars a year on consumer items, but Black leaders want a higher proportion of that to go to black-owned businesses.

Daniel talks with Film Director Spike Lee. Lee's new movie opened this week nationwide and it's about a group of Black men who travel by Bus to the Million Man March, which was held last year in Washington D.C. The characters in the film represent, what Lee says, are all aspects of the Black community. He says it's not what you would usually see in a Hollywood film. Also, the film was financed by donations from 15 Black men. Lee turned down money offers from big studios and when the film was done, he sold the film to Columbia for a profit.

to three Gulf Arab states to secure support for continued military and economic pressures against Iraq.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that the State Department has issued a new warning to Iraq about its air defense systems within the Allied-patroled no-fly zones over Iraq, but military action seems increasingly unlikely despite the week's buildup of retaliatory forces around the Persian Gulf.

The Military Personnel subcommittee of the House National Security committee has released newly-declassified documents that show the Eisenhower administration suspected that North Korea still held hundreds of American prisoners after the war. One memo says Army Secretary Robert Stevens told President Eisenhower that the services had the names of more than 900 servicemen believed to have been in prison camps, who were unaccounted for. The subcommittee's chairman, Congressman Robert Dornan, speculates that Eisenhower did not pursue the issue for fear the dispute would lead to nuclear war. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

In California today, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole addressed high school students about the dangers of drug use and chastised the entertainment and fashion industries for glamorizing drugs. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Robert talks with Alan Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard University and a constitutional law expert. He was a member of O.J. Simpson's criminal defense team and is the author of Reasonable Doubt (Simon and Schuster, 1996). They discuss why the civil trial agains O.J. Simpson is not in violation of the Consitution's "double jeopardy" clause, and the nuances between asking for punitive damages and other kinds of civil penalties.