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Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with William Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard, and Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprises Institute, about the remaining two-and-a-half weeks of the presidential campaign.

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.

JAPAN ELECTION: NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on preliminary results rom Parlimentary elections in Japan.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the threat posed to Haiti's fragile democracy by thousands of disgruntled former soldiers. There have been attacks against government targets by soldiers who are without jobs or money, and several former members of the military have been arrested on suspicion of plotting against the government of president Rene Preval.

Commentator Martin Bernstein tells how type-A's can survive through this long weekend of baseball-watching on TV.

Ed O'Loughlin reports from Johannesburg that former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and other former police officials were acquitted of murder charges today. Malan was the most senior member of the old apartheid government to stand trial for human rights abuses, but the judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and fifteen co-defendants of the 1987 death squad killing of a family. The ruling angered many who had fought white minority rule, while former apartheid officials praised it as a vindication.

Liane Hansen visits the AIDS quilt on display this weekend in ashington D.C. We hear from several visitors, who tell us why they came to see he quilt. The quilt, which carries some 70,000 names, stretches over one mile n the Washington Mall, from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol uilding.

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to some members of Congress about he need to pay attention to constituent services. The late Tip O'Neill once aid that "all politics is local," and most of today's politicians still find hat true.

- We hear tape of people attending today's annual display of the massive AIDS quilt on the Mall in Washington. One family tells us they came to the Mall to unfurl for the first time a quilt panel in honor of their mother, who recently died of the disease.

- 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.