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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Warsaw that a special tribunal today cleared former Polish president Lech Walesa of charges he collaborated with the communist-era secret police. The court ruled that in the early eighties, the Interior Ministry faked documents, casting Walesa as an informant, to undermine his chances of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Thursday, the court also cleared the current president Alexander Kwasniewski, of similar charges of collaboration.

Scott speaks with reporter Alice Furlaud who remembers the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Alice was there, but missed, it seems, the most important events.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott with some thoughts about Joseph Lieberman, Al Gore's designated running mate.

In Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Congo, the diamond trade has provided insurgent movements with billions of dollars worth of wealth and arms to continue their murderous campaigns. The United Nations has taken unprecedented steps to cut off the illicit diamond trade. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

500 lifesize fiberglass bovines are roaming the streets of New York. Tourists love them, but cynics say rats or pigeons would be more appropriate. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

A Boston-based heavyweight boxer named John the Quietman Ruiz steps into the ring tonight to fight Evander Holyfield for the World Boxing Association's heavyweight championship. Jason Beaubien, of member station WBUR in Boston, has a profile of Mr. Ruiz.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that the tragedies of the gulag archipelago still haunt the Siberian mining city of Norilsk. Stalin deported prisoners to this frozen region in Russia's far north to mine some of the world's richest deposits of nickel, palladium and platinum. Today, construction crews plough up miners' bones from mass graves in the industrial wasteland.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from Portland, Oregon where he's covering George W. Bush's presidential campaign.

The city of Santa Monica was one of the first communities in the nation to discover that its underground water source was contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. Now they are suing seven major oil companies for the money to pay for the cleanup. Nova Safo reports from Santa Monica.