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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that the southern African nation of Angola is warily moving forward with a peace prcoess designed to end a devastating twenty-year civil war. But many are nervous about wheher the government and revels can see the process through. There still is tremendous distrust and the revels are lagging in demobilizing their troops.

These days, the conversation at commentator Bill Harley's dinner table is about ancient Egypt. His son is learning about the subject at school and it's a chance for Bill to review the most intriguing things about the culture - because what was cool about ancient Egyptians when he was a kid are now the coolest things to his son.

Today is Pioneer Day, when Mormons celebrate the day their ancestors first came to Utah almost 150 years ago. But Utah was seen as a haven for other religious groups as well. At the turn of the century, a small gorup of Jews from the East created Clarion, a community in the desert dedicated to a return to the land by Jews. Despite help from Mormon farmers, these pioneers failed. Reporter Maria Titze (teet-suh) of member station KUER revisits Clarion and some of the people who remember it. (9:00) (IN S

on the dispute between Britain and other E.U. countries over the ban on British beef. The accord comes a day before the annual E.U. summit in Italy.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, reflecting on the "Filegate" scandal and investigation, longs for the days when the government was made up of career officials, not partisan political appointees.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the debate within the U.S. government over whether Chinese-supplied missiles in Pakistan have become operational. If they ARE operational, the U.S. would be required to impose sanctions against China and Pakistan, which could have serious repercussions.

In reaction to a declining domestic marketplace, Avon, the world's largest cosmetic company, and other U.S. businesses have targeted a more global audience. The strategy has definitely worked for Avon, last year they made four-and-a-half billion dollars in profit from sales in 125 countries. One town on the Amazon has no doctor or dentist, but the 3,000 residents are served by six Avon representatives.

about what the FBI files, and what's in them.

Carl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun and Doyle McManus of the Los ngeles Times review the week's news with host Korva Coleman. Among the topics: his year's Supreme Court decisions, the results of a Pentagon study on sexual arrassment at the defense department and Republican presidential candidate Bob ole's tussle with the tobacco issue.

In light of the current "filegate" scandal, NPR's Senior News nalyst Daniel Schorr remembers when the Nixon White House had the FBI nvestigate him.