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Today is the day groups planning to protest at the Republican National Convention this summer can get their protest permits, and some have had representatives waiting in line since 4 a.m. Monday. Groups are vying for 55-minute time slots during the convention to protest at a site near the convention hall. However, the American Civil Liberties Union announced today it would file a suit, arguing that the site is not close enough. Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS reports.

NPR's Neal Conan reports that security at a military facility that was bombed yesterday in Saudi Arabia had been stepped up following a truck bomb attack in Riyadh seven months ago. The fuel truck carrying yesterday's bomb did not penetrate the security perimeter around the housing complex, but the explosion was so large that hundreds of people were killed and injured. Security outside the facility is the responsibility of Saudi authorities, and questions are now being asked about what has been regarded as a very efficient police and military security system.

GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole today criticized Clinton administration policies toward Russia and Bosnia in a speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. Dole said Clinton's policies have encouraged the emergence of hard-line forces in Russia and the former senator said he hoped current Russian President Boris Yeltsin would win re-election in his race against Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov (zyoo-GAHN-ov). NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Reform Party presidential candidates Richard Lamm and Ross Perot will appear together this weekend at the Maine and Virginia Reform Party conventions. The two will face off at the party's national convention next month, but are currently courting party members to put their names on a nominating ballot due next week. Ballots have been sent out to more than one million people who signed petitions to put the party on state ballots around the country. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Dan Charles reports on the shrinking divide between the world of machines and the world of micro-electronics. The only things moving on most computer chips are electrons, racing along circuits at the speed of light. But designers have begun building chips that have actual moving parts. The result may be a microscopic industrial revolution.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that the agreement between Russia and Chechen rebels is boosting Russian President Yeltsin's re-election bid. There is still violence in the break-away republic, but some Russian troops have begun to pull out. There are only four days left before election day. Most polls show Yeltsin leading the race, but Yeltsin aides are worried that there'll be a run-off between their candidate and his Communist rival, Gennady Zyuganov (gen-NAH-dee zyo-GAH-nof).

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on plans by Intuit, maker of the personal finance management software Quicken, to introduce a new form of computer software that will make it easier to do banking from home. Intuit already has nine million customers who've embraced the Quicken software, and they're hoping to attract customers who may have never used the technology that's now becoming available for banking by computer or who are too afraid to even try.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that the campaigning for Sunday's presidential elections has ended in Russia. She talks about what's at stake for Russia and the world in these elections. Yeltsin himself has been characterizing the election as a choice between the economic future and the economic past. Some voters fear that if communist Gennady Zyuganov (genn-AH-dee zyoo-GAHN-ahv) is elected, relations with the West will deteriorate and further complicate Russia's troubled economic picture.

President Clinton announced a program today that will track the origins of guns confiscated from teenaged criminals. The 17-city effort will collect serial numbers and other information on the guns and feed that into a computer system run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The network should improve law enforcement's chances of finding out who is selling guns to juveniles. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the President has high hopes for the program, but some analysts don't see it making much of a dent in crime.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports that broadcast television has agreed to a plan to air 3-hours of educational programming for children each week. President Clinton announced the deal today at a White House conference of broadcasters, actors, and children's advocates. The deal does NOT cover cable. The agreement acknowledges the Federal Communications Commission's authority to determine what's 'educational' and to ensure compliance. An FCC deadlock which has dragged on all summer is expected to end, now that broadcasters have dropped their long-standing opposition to government rules for children's programming.