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Today presidential candidate Ross Perot spoke to the Economic Club of Detroit and said that the government needs to be run more like a business. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the Reform Party candidate and Texas billionaire said he'll announce his running mate Tuesday night in an info-mercial that will air on CBS television.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses this week's U-S missile attacks on Iraq with Richard Haass, Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, and with New York Times senior writer Judith Miller, author of "God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East."

NPR'S Mike Shuster reports that people in Baghdad seem more angry over continued economic sanctions against their country than over the U.S. bombing raids. Markets in the Iraqi capital have lots of goods imported from Jordan, but few Iraqis can pay the high prices to buy them.

With a place for its presidential nominee expected on 40 state ballots this fall, the U.S. Taxpayer's Party stands ready to embrace Pat Buchanan and any other Christian conservatives left unsatisfied by the Republican National Convention next week. NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the party's origins and tenets.

While Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole has surrounded himself with some big name advisors, he also has some former Hill aides running important parts of his campaign. These trusted aides know Capitol Hill, but would they know how to run the White House? This revolving door between Congress and campaigns is common. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's John Ydstie reports on another sell-off in the stock market. All three major indices were down substantially. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 141 points at one point, before recovering somewhat. The disappointing earnings of high-tech companies was again cited as the reason for the equity market's decline.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that the House today approved the Safe Drinking Water Act. The bill...among other things...would require public water suppliers to inform consumers of impurities in their tap water. Republicans claim it shows their concern for the environment. But Democrats say Republicans are restricting the public's right-to-know on another issue...the Superfund law.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA reports on the popularity f the board game Scrabble. The 20th North American Scrabble Championship took lace this past week in Dallas.

NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports that the Food and Drug Administration today opened a two-day meeting to discuss 'herbal' products containing a natural form of the stimulant ephedrine. The products have been linked to hundreds of cases of adverse health effects. The FDA is considering taking action against them, raising concerns among the makers of other herbal products.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on Boris Yeltsin's health problems. In an interview on television, Yeltsin's cardiologist said the bypass surgery operation on Yeltsin should be delayed. In the parliament, the Communist speaker says if doctors tell Yeltsin to do less work instead of having the surgery, Yeltsin should resign.