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proposal today for reforming private pension plans. It's intended to encourage more small employers to offer retirement plans to their workers and to make it easier for workers to take their pension plans with them when they change jobs.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that the United States and Israel have agreed to install a new set of anti-missile defenses in Israel, as part of an effort to keep enemy rockets from ever hitting Israeli soil. Recent attempts to bomb the hiding places of Hezbollah guerillas firing rockets at Israel have had one disastrous side effect--heavy civilian casualties. That seems to be one of the reasons why Israel and the United States will rush to finish testing and installing an anti-missile system whose key components exist only as prototypes.

a week-old cease-fire continues... This past week, diplomats from the U-S traveled to Liberia to urge faction leaders to restrain their teen-aged fighters. They hope to revive a peace process which had ended more than six years of civil war.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon about the pandemic and Scottish independence at the Aspen Security Forum.

A profile of Tracy Nelson, the great blues and gospel singer - and the former leader of the San Francisco sixties band - Mother Earth. Her most famous song she authored "Down So Low." Nelson has a new album out called I FEEL SO GOOD - and while Nelson says she doesn't give a hoot about success - her new album has been doing well. Susan Armistead visited Nelson at her home in the woods outside Nashville and filed this profile. (8:30) [The album is I FEEL SO GOOD / ROUNDER RECORDS] (IN S

physician-assisted suicides Constitutional. The rulings will likely come before the U.S. Supreme Court, but until then, assisted suicides will be legal in 12 states, including California and New York.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell talks about the ABC drama series "Murder One." The show's season finale aired this week. The network hasn't decided whether the critically acclaimed series will be renewed.

Noah and Linda read letters from our listeners. The address for letters is All Things Considered, 635 Massachussetts Ave., NW; Washington D.C. 20001. Or by E-mail at ATC@npr.org

After the Oklahoma City bombing, the country suddenly took note of the rhetoric coming from far-right radical groups such as the numerous citizen militias and separatists such as the Posse Comitatus. Now, reports NPR's Howard Berkes, similar links are being made between the suspected Unabomber and the inflammatory language of some radical environmental groups.

Martha Bebinger of member station WBUR reports on the Monday's scheduled running of the 100th Boston Marathon. Event organizers are expecting more than 35 -thousand registered runners and untold numbers of gate-crashers trying to get in on the historic marathon.