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Commentator Jim Wallis says during election season, the poor do not exist---they don't have political clout or power---even though how we treat the poor is really the best test of how we define ourselves as a community. Wallis says both candidates ignore the poor and therefore ignore the growing economic divide between rich and poor in this nation...a divide that can only lead to other great societal ills.

Documentary film producer PAUL STEKLER. He co-produced the new film series, "Vote for Me - Politics in America" a look at how American culture is reflected in local politics. This PBS series, to be aired October 28 and 29, examines the various things candidates will do in their campaigns to be elected. STEKLER, with his co-producers received a DuPont-Columbia Journalism Award for a series done in 1993, entitled "Louisiana Boys, Raised on Politics." Also interviewed at the same time was MAGGIE LAUTERER, the subject of one "Vote for Me" episode. She's a former journalist and first-time candidate who ran for Congress in North Carolina, and lost

about President Clinton's proposals for targeted cuts and credits as they are with Bob Dole's tax-cutting proposals.

seemed to describe different economies belonging to different countries -- both named America.

The FBI announced today that it has arrested a civilian Navy intelligence analyst for allegedly giving classified information to South Korea. Robert Kim, a U.S. citizen who was born in South Korea, worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence. He is accused of gathering top-secret documents through his computer this year and passing them to an attache with the South Korean Embassy in Washington. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

It's been a bad year in California's wine country - bad weather has plagued grape growers, causing a small harvest. Prices for quality grapes are way up. Vintners are now importing medium-quality wine from South America and France to make up the difference. Ancel Martinez reports.

Commentator Bob Garfield learns that Kuwait is planning to erect a 130-mile long elctric fence on its border with Iraq. He calls for an estimate for the job from a contractor in the American heartland.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the Defense Department says it is starting to refocus its investigation of illnesses among Gulf War veterans as a result of recent revelations that some troops may have been exposed to chemical weapons during clean-up efforts after the war. The Pentagon's top doctor, Steven Joseph, says the realization is "a watershed" in trying to understand the mysterious ailments. The Pentagon now presumes some soldiers have been exposed to chemical weapons, though no illnesses have been clearly linked to the chemicals.

-- the coroner says the woman, whose death he attended was not terminally ill.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on new speculation about Russia, Chechnya and who's in charge in the Kremlin. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is out of town. And the man he put in charge of running government policy in Chehcnya, his security chief Alexander Lebed, is fighting on two fronts. While he works at settling the war in Chechnya, he's in daily battles with the bureaucracy in the Kremlin. The most recent attack from Lebed against the Kremlin is that Yeltsin's signature on recent decrees concerning Chechnya are facsimiles and not original.