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NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on yesterdays National ssue Convention, held in Austin, Texas. Several of the Republican candidates or the presidential nomination were on hand to answer questions from a selected roup of voters. Although front-runner Senator Bob Dole was not in attendance, he other candidates fielded questions on, among other things, proposals for a flat tax".

Journalist JOHN HOCKENBERRY. He spent more than a decade with National Public Radio as a general assignment reporter, Middle East correspondent, and program host. HOCKENBERRY is paralyzed from the waist down and he writes of his life's obstacles and accomplishments in his new book Moving Violations (Hyperion). He is presently a correspondent for ABC's news magazine show "Day One," for which he received an Emmy.

A federal judge has thrown out a suit against GOPAC, House Speaker Newt Gingrich's former political action committee. The judge has rejected Federal Election Commission arguments that the group assisted federal candidates, when it was registered only to help state and local candidates. The FEC had hoped for court help in getting the names of GOPAC's donors, how much they contributed and how the money was used. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports that a federal judge has moved the trail of Oklahoma City bombing defendants Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols has been moved to Denver. Judge Richard Matsch ruled that the defendents couldn't get a fair trial in the same state where the terrorist attack which killed 169 people had occured. The government wanted the trial in Tulsa, about a hundred miles from Oklahoma City.

For a long time, nuclear power plant operators have been arning that storage space for used nuclear fuel rods is running out. The ederal government has promised to transfer the material to a controversial dump ite at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, but the Clinton administration says it could e years before a final decision is made. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the controversy surrounding the investigation and arrest of computer hacker Kevin Mitnick. The FBI described Mitnick as the nation's most wanted hacker, but others say Mitnick was never the threat the FBI and others made him out to be. Two books about Mitnick have just been published...and the authors take very difference views of the threat he represented.

Tomorrow's primaries, called Junior Tuesday, include New England states and Georgia. One western state is also being contested, Colorado. NPR's Mark Roberts reports that the property rights and land use issues that dominated conservative campaigns in the past are no longer an issue. Instead, the candidates are offering the same one-size-fits-all message that everyone else gets. Many Coloradans find it hard to find an issue that moves them.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports Republicans say new notes released by the White House are a sign it tried to control damage regarding Whitewater. The notes, written by former White House aide Mark Gearan in early 1994, describe a meeting where administration officials wanted to contact Beverly Bassett Schaeffer, a key witness in the Whitewater affair. Republicans say that suggests an effort to influence Schaeffer's testimony. The Senate Whitewater committee also delved into who handled the billing records found recently at the White House.

Linda talks with Michael Betzold, a reporter on strike from the Detroit Free Press, about Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Betzold says Kevorkian wishes that society will one day accept assisted suicide for those who are emotionally ill as well as for the terminally sick. Betzold also talks about Kevorkian's desire to control death. Betzold has written about Kevorkian since 1991 and wrote a book about him called, "Appointment with Dr. Death."

NPR's John McChesney reports that one-time rivals Microsoft and America on Line reached an agreement today that would put AOL on every computer running Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system. The agreement comes less than a year after America on Line and other on-line services argued strenuously that the advent of the Microsoft Network last summer would give the software giant an unfair advantage over the on-line providers.