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Robert and Linda take note of the anniversary of President Harry Truman's executive order directing that all members of the U.S. military be treated equally.

Commentator Reynolds Price reflects on his brief encounters with various celebrities from Orson Welles to Bob Dylan. He says he's had to change his approach to such "brushes with greatness."

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the differing receptions that await Israel's Prime Minister Barak and Palestinian Leader Arafat, as they return today from the 15-day Summit at Camp David. The talks ended yesterday without an agreement. Arafat is being praised for standing firm on issues of importance to Palestinians, especially sovereignty over East Jerusalem. Barak returns home with an uncertain political future.

For some insight into how the Arab world is responding to results of the Camp David talks, Robert talks with Hisham Melhem, Senior Correspondent for As-Safir, the major daily newspaper of Beirut and Washington correspondent for Radio Montecarlo, a French and Arab language broadcast service to the Middle East.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that nvestigators are focusing on the engines of the Air France Concorde jet that crashed yesterday outside Paris, killing 113 people. One of the engines on the doomed supersonic jet was repaired just before the flight, but a company spokesman says it's too early to say whether that problem was responsible for the crash.

As part of The Changing Face of America series, NPR's John Nielsen reports from Albuquerque on the real estate development formula that drives the creation of regional shopping malls and suburban sprawl across the country. Nielsen talks to Chris Leinberger, an expert on 'the science of sprawl,' who says that sprawl is planned, not random or haphazard.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from the Republican presidential campaign trail in Wyoming, where Texas Governor George W. Bush's vice-presidential choice, Dick Cheney, is already deflecting attacks from democrats. They point to Cheney's congressional voting record as evidence that he's a hard-line conservative.

Commentator Frank Deford says he's ready to give up on baseball. He says the major leagues are littered with problems no one's going to solve any time soon.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Tel Aviv reports Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak returned from the failed Camp David summit, with the fate of the Middle East peace process and his own political future open to question.

Jacky Rowland reports from Belgrade that a Yugoslav military court today sentenced a Serb journalist to seven years in prison on charges of espionage and spreading false information. The reporter, Miroslav Filipovic reported allegations of atrocities committed by Yugoslav army troops against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo last year.