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NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on a controversial National Park Service project to remove wild ponies from the outer banks of North Carolina. The Park Service says the ponies are destroying the island's natural vegetation; animal rights activists are worried about the ponies' precarious futures.

Former diplomat Alger Hiss, accused of having been part of a communist espionage ring in the 1930's, died today at a New York Hospital at the age of 92. Robert talks about the Hiss case and its influence on American politics in this obituary. Hiss maintained his innocence up through the end of his life.

Commentator Malcolm MacKinnon likes walking around the house at night, with the lights of his electronic appliances all around him. He says they're a comforting reminder of living in the modern age, and guide him around the darkened rooms like small beacons.

The school district in Cleveland, Ohio is in trouble. The district has been taken over by the state...and now parents, educators and students are involved in a new experiment that many say will save the system. Others say the program will kill the public schools altogether. Poor families are eligible for school vouchers which can be used at private schools... even Catholic schools. This is the only voucher program in the country that includes Catholic schools, and voucher advocates are hoping it will prove their contention that public schools need competition if they're ever going to improve. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to Republican and Democratic consultants for an national overview of House races. In recent weeks, Republicans in a number of close races seem to have pulled ahead, and some political observers say the anti-incumbent sentiment that marked the 1992 election seems much-diminished this year.

backed away from its promised reform of Mexico's electoral system.

- In the Hague, the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced a low-ranking soldier to 10 years in jail for his role in the massacre of 1,200 people and finished the trial of another defendent. Gillian Sharpe reports the second trial is far more complex, with questions of guilt and innocence clouded by emotional testimony and circumstantial evidence.

Daniel talks with Craig and Pat Enenbach (EHN-in-bahk), founders of the Omaha (Nebraska) Handicap Parking Patrol. The Enenbach's, along with about 45 volunteers, issue citations at cars parked illegally in spots reserved for the disabled. They have been empowered to do so by the Omaha police department. Twelve groups nationwide perform a similar function.

to spread their demonstrations to cities other than Belgrade in an effort to further pressure President Milosevic....

to reduce the number of American bases on Okinawa -- a move aimed at easing anti-U.S. sentiment on the island after the rape earlier this year of a local woman by three American military personnel...