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NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the Christian mens' movement and its first conference for men of the cloth. About 40,000 ministers from all over the world filled a sports stadium in Atlanta recently to sing, pray and listen to other preachers call for a national revival for Jesus.

As part of our continuing election coverage, we have been running excerpts from the standard stump speeches of the Republican presidential candidates. Tonight it's Pat Buchannan's turn.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER ATTENDED A MEMORIAL SERVICE YESTERDAY FOR THE JOB CORPS STUDENTS KILLED IN THE TRAIN ACCIDENT LAST WEEKEND IN SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND.

Jacki talks with Hal Seamon, deputy executive director of the National School Boards Association. President Clinton today supported the concept of requiring kids to wear school uniforms, although he said the requirement should be imposed by local school boards and not the federal government. Seamon supports the idea and says places that HAVE school uniforms are seeing a positive change in student behavior.

2: Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Before and After" the new film starring Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson. . . This will be STEPHEN's last Fresh Air film review. He'll be going on to a new career in screenwriting. His adaptation for "Lolita" will hit the screen this Fall. Following the review, Terry will talk with STEPHEN about his work.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement has resurfaced, with political candidates making claims and counter-claims about the trade agreement's effect on jobs in the U.S. Pat Buchanan insists that NAFTA has cost the U.S. 300,000 jobs, but most economists say he has no hard evidence to support such claim.

Alan Cheuse reviews "The Cardinals," a novel by the well-known South African writer Bessie Head. Cheuse says the book, which tells of the transformation of a journalist during the oppressive days of apartheid, is raw and powerful.

Biographer ARNOLD RAMPERSAD is professor of Literature at rinceton. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes was praised by critics as one of the best biographies of a black American writer. RAMPERSAD also is the author of a biography of Richard Wright and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace. There's a new paperback edition of "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes" edited by Rampersad and David Roessel (Vintage Classics). We'll hear Terry's interview with RAMPERSAD about Langston Hughes. (REBROADCAST from 11

Commentator Alan Sipporin says the write-in vote that Oregonians are conducting now in a special election to replace Senator Packwood is good for democracy. He says more people participate in the write-in vote and it's cheaper, too.

Writer Bev D'Onofrio has this tale of her decision to abandon her life in New York City and return to a saner way of existence in a small town on Long Island.