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NPR'S Melanine Peeples reports on dire conditions following three years of severe drought in the southeastern United States.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the move by Republicans in the House to authorize the building of a monument to former president Ronald Reagan on the National Mall in Washington. It has already passed the House Resources Committee and is on the way to a full floor vote before Congress adjourns next month. Democrats say the move is less about honoring Reagan than it is about injecting him into the current presidential campaign. The move, if it passes, would circumvent a law that says no one can be honored with a memorial in the nation's capital until 25 years after the person's death.

Veteran broadcaster Robert Trout recalls when the tide of the Battle of Britain turned. The aerial bombardment of London by Germany during World War Two -- known as the Blitz -- was thought to be a prelude to Nazi invasion. After the war, it was learned that on this date Adolf Hitler decided to abandon plans to take over England. Trout narrates a story about anchoring CBS Radio Network News during this period. We hear his colleague in London, Edward R. Murrow reporting on the air raids, Trout's own broadcasts, and the voice of Winston Churchill after the war. Trout tells how the addition of an evening newscast in radio prime time angered advertisers.

Journalist Burkhard Bilger. His new book about clandestine Southern traditions is Noodling For Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts (Scribner) His article Enter the Chicken which originally appeared in Harper's Magazine about cockfighting in Louisana, is in the new book. (REBROADCAST from 3

Whit Stillman is the writer, director and producer of the film The Last Days of Disco which portrayed the disco scene in New York in late 1970's to the early 1980's. Stillman also wrote and directed the films Metropolitan and Barcelona. His new book is a novel which follows the action of his disco film, The Last Days of Disco with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). (REBROADCAST from 6

The mock rock documentary This Is Spinal Tap is being re-released in theatres and new special editions are being released on DVD and VHS. We feature interviews with co-writer and co-star Christopher Guest. (INTERVIEWS ARE REBROADCAST FROM 9/14/89 AND 2

Former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee was released from prison this week. Fifty-eight of fifty-nine charges were dropped. NPR's Guy Raz spoke with scientists in the Los Alamos area who wonder if investigators for the Justice Department misunderstood Lee's actions from the start.

NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing reports one of the leaders of China's Roman Catholic Church has been arrested. The detention of 81-year-old Bishop Zeng Jingmu, who has already spent more than three decades in prison, happened as a senior Vatican official is on a visit to the Chinese capital.

A note on some of the little known candidates for the White House in this year's election.

John Miller reports from Lima, Peru on public reaction to President Alberto Fujimori's surprise announcement of a timetable for new elections. Fujimori is resigning from office because a bribery scandal involving intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos.