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plays tonight. The American Basketball League has teams in eight cities and features some of the best female players in the world. Others have failed before, but organizers believe this league will thrive on the coattails of the gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic team, and the increased popularity of the college game.

Budapest's renovated Dohany Street Synagogue reopened yesterday after five years of renovation. It is Europe's largest synagogue. In 1989 commentator Andrei Codrescu visited the house of worship, quite by accident, and wrote an essay from there about how moved he was by the service. He says he has roots on his mother's side in the culture and could feel the emotional tie.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton today addressed the delegates of the National Baptist Convention in Orlando, as he began the second day of a two-day campaign swing through Florida, a state he hopes to win in November. He talked to the crowd about new Labor Department figures showing the lowest unemployment rate in seven years, but also asked the church representatives to offer jobs to people trying to get off welfare.

Democrats are brimming with optimism about their prospects in the presidential race, but the battle for control of Congress remains tight. The four open Senate seats in the Deep South complicate the picture for them. NPR's Peter Kenyon traveled to Alabama, where Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is facing Democratic state Senator Roger Bedford in an increasingly negative campaign.

about the many open congressional races and how they might affect the fall elections.

- Host Cory Flintoff speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb, who is in northern Iraq in the aftermath of Iraqi forces' move into the region. Goldfarb says Iraqi forces are dug into position just inside the Kurdish safe-haven zone and that United Nations officials are concerned about Turkish plans to establish a security zone in another portion of northern Iraq near the Turkish border

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Turkey on new government efforts to shift policy toward the Kurds. A 12-year-long battle with Kurdish insurgents has created millions of homeless refugees...most of them are pouring into Turkish cities. Although the new pro-Islamic government is trying to return these refugees to their homes, the Kurds are suspicious.

NPR'S Mary Kay Magistad (MAGG-stad) reports that the Cambodian government says it has sent troops to help the Khmer Rouge breakaway faction retake a village it lost yesterday to hardline members of the group. This caused hundreds of Khmer Rouge soldiers and civilians to flee into Thailand.

The BBC's Elizabeth Blunt reports on the slaughter of 200 elephants at a salt marsh in the Congo. Although elephant poaching decreased after harvesting ivory was banned by international agreement, the world's shrinking stocks of ivory are making poaching increasingly profitable.

begins tomorrow. Prime Minister Hashimoto dissolved parliament early hoping to strengthen his party's hold on power, but the opposite may happen.

which begins today. The justices will examine some very controversial issues, including the right to doctor-assisted suicide, Presidential immunity from civil lawsuits, English-only laws and gun control.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole's campaign trip to New Jersey today, where he talked about his 15 percent tax cut proposal. He was accompanied by N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose own tax cut proposal three year's ago helped her with a come-from-behind victory on election day.

Commentator Mickey Edwards discusses the Lexington, North Carolina story involving a first-grade boy who kissed a little girl at school...and who got in a lot of trouble. He thinks that the grownups involved in the story are the ones who should stand in the corner.

Robert talks to Dr. Sa'eb Erakat, the chief Palestinian negotiator and the Minister of Local Government for the Palestinian authority. He explains why the opening of the tunnel near the Temple Mount sparked the Palestinian dissent.

1996 is the 75th anniversary of the Filofax...the small, organizing notebook that, for some, has replaced the personal secretary. British writer Michael Bywater has had a love affair with the Filofax...loving the look and feel of the organizer---and fantasizing about everything that his Filofaxes could do for him. But it's been a turbulent relationship.

and the future of the National Basketball Association...tonight the league begins its 50th season. He says the sport fits America's appetite for speed and our television habits, just like baseball meshed with radio and the slower pace of life in the past.

to have an operation on his appendix.

Pan Am Flight 21 from New York to Miami took off on schedule this morning. Nothing unusual there... except the name of the airline. Pan Am is back in the air again today after going out of business in 1991, the victim of years of mismanagement and a terrorist bombing. The new investors who bought the right to use the Pan Am name are hoping they can use that name to succeed against heavy competition. NPR's Jim Zarroli has a report.

As a public service, NPR is participating in a program with other television and radio news outlets which is providing free airtime to the two major-party candidates in the upcoming Presidential election. These messages come directly from the two campaigns and are presented in an unedited form. Tonight's message comes from Republican candidate Bob Dole.

Republican Presidential Nominee Bob Dole's plans for a four-day, around-the- clock marathon campaign trip until Tuesday's election. Dole said he intends to 'shake things up' during the final 96 hours before the election.

An appreciation of the songwriting talent of Ted Daffan (DAH-fan), one of honky tonk's pioneers. He played the steel guitar... and in 1934 he signed on with The Blue Ridge Playboys and started writing songs, including the first trucker number "Truck Driver's Blues." He wrote other honky tonk hits for various artists.

How does the venture capital process work? How important are venture capital firms in sparking entrepreneurial activity? Chris Arnold profiles one influential Silicon Valley firm, The Mayfield Fund.

The Burmese military government detained more than a hundred pro-democracy activists and blocked all roads to democracy movement-leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house today, to keep a meeting of the National League for Democracy from taking place. Governments around the world are watching the situation closely and are concerned about the apparent deterioration of the situation in the Burmese capital of Rangoon. The BBC's Jonathan Miller has this report.

which is attracting national attention. Incumbent Democrat Ronnie Earle has been targeted by Republicans for trying unsuccessfully to prosecute Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison two years ago. Earle failed in his attempt to convict Hutchison of misusing the office of state treasurer during her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

political contributions can be hard to distinguish. While it's illegal for a U.S. political party to accept money from a foreign corporation, it's not against the law to take money from a domestic subsidiary of a foreign company.