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- Daniel talks with Edward Behr (BEAR) about the origins of Prohibition. America was "dry" from 1920 until 1933. During those 13 years Americans were unable to legally buy or sell alcoholic beverages. Behr says that, in part, Prohibition was white Anglo-Saxon America's attempt to suppress the new immigrants. Edward Behr is the author of "Prohibition:Thirteen Years That Changed America"

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with William Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute, about the remaining two-and-a-half weeks of the presidential campaign.

Linda talks to Patricia Wells-- author of a new cookbook called "PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE." It is a book of recipes inspired by her famouhouse in France. Wells encourages cooks to use fresh ingredients and not to muck it all up. If you're cooking eggplant - she says - it should taste like eggplant!

Linda speaks with Bill Paxon (R-NY), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has produced and paid for new ads that urge voters to prevent Democrats from controlling both the White House and Congress. The ads are being interpreted as an implicit acknowledgement by the GOP that Bob Dole may lose the presidential election. Paxon says that this interpretation of the ad is wrong, and that the GOP still has confidence that Dole can win the election.

reports on an upcoming Iranian film called, "Sandstorm" about the aborted attempt to resuce the US hostages back in 1980.

- Also in Washington today, thousands of Hispanic Americans converged on the White House to protest recent legislation that restricts the rights of legal and illegal immigrants. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the mood was festive but the demonstrators acknowledged they face an uphill battle to recapture lost political ground.

Ed O'Loughlin reports from Johannesburg that former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and other former police officials were acquitted of murder charges today. Malan was the most senior member of the old apartheid government to stand trial for human rights abuses, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and fifteen co-defendants of the 1987 death squad killing of a family. The ruling angered many who had fought white minority rule, while former apartheid officials praised it as a vindication.

Robert talks with Kurt Eichenwald -- a business reporter with the New York Times -- about tapes which have surfaced that reveal Texaco executives discussed an impeding Federal discrimination suit. In his story in this morning's paper, Eichenwald details what the executives said regarding purging and shredding documents. In addition, he writes, the executives berated the company's minority employees with racial epithets. The tapes were recorded in August 1994, and some of the remarks were published in today's New York Times.

Tomorrow, Election Day, political races across the country will be decided and many more local propositions will be placed before the voters for ratification. Public attention has been focused on just a few of them. Robert and Linda talk about aspects of the election season that have escaped widespread public notice: a candidate for the Colorado state senate who has thrown her support behind her opponent; a Republican congressional candidate in New Jersey who does not speak English, and others.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Turkey on that country's concerns about the fighting between Kurdish factions in neighboring northern Iraq. The Turks have a Kurdish problem of their own, fighting a nationalist group they say is using the north of Iraq to launch attacks on Turkish targets. While Turkey wants a resolution to the Kurdish fighting, it doesn't necessarily back United States efforts to mediate an end to the conflict.