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2: BEN KINGSLEY. He is the British actor who won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film, "Ghandi." He's also known for his roles in "Bugsy," Schindler's List," "Sneakers," "Dave" "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "Species," and many more movies as well as plays. Kingsley was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court in London and the National Theatre. His new film is "Twelfth Night."

- Also in Washington today, thousands of Hispanic Americans converged on the White House to protest recent legislation that restricts the rights of legal and illegal immigrants. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the mood was festive but the demonstrators acknowledged they face an uphill battle to recapture lost political ground.

- Jackie speaks with Al Cardenas (car-DANE-us), vice chairman of the Florida state Republican Party. Cardenas outlines the GOP's strategy for winning Flordia, long a Republican stronghold but now a crucial state that is up for grabs in the November election.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that two weeks after the revived Palestinianian-Israeli peace talks began with promises of around-the-clock negotiations with a US negotiator, the talks have now stalled and the US mediator, Dennis Ross, has decided to fly home. Israelis blame Palestinians and the Palestinians blame the Israelis.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says businesses use all kinds of terms these days to describe cash demands. Not only is there a "shelf-space slotting fee" that food manufacturers pay to grocery retailers for prime shelf placement, and publishers pay "display fees" to book chains for prime window and floor spaces. Jennings says that whatever the fees are called, she thinks they're just bribes.

Linda talks to Patricia Wells-- author of a new cookbook called "PATRICIA WELLS AT HOME IN PROVENCE." It is a book of recipes inspired by her famouhouse in France. Wells encourages cooks to use fresh ingredients and not to muck it all up. If you're cooking eggplant - she says - it should taste like eggplant!

Pakistan about the president's decision to dismiss Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on charges of widespread corruption and political cronyism.

All Things Considered asked several commentators to talk about issues that they felt had been forgotten in this year's campaign. Commentator Walter Olsen is sick of every issue in this campaign being represented as a children's issue. Just once, he says, he'd like to hear the candidates talking for and about grown-ups. All the regulating and restricting of children, for their protection, eats away at the freedom of all Americans.

2: From Australia, writer and adventurer ROBYN DAVIDSON. Her book "Tracks" (paperback, Vintage) was the account of her 1,700 mile journey across Australia with four camels and a dog. It won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next adventure was a trip across the Indian desert with nomads, which she chronicled in the new book "Desert Places." (Viking). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

begins to take effect, the government is rushing to move one million welfare recipients into the job market over the next four years. President Clinton is pushing a plan that's been tried before with mixed results...tax incentives to businesses that hire welfare recipients.