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NPR's Ted Clark talks with Linda about the conclusion of President Clinton's emergency summit to restart the Middle East Peace Process, which ended with only an agreement to keep talking -- back in the Middle East -- starting next Sunday. Both Israel and the Palestinians remain as divided as they were last week about the issues that resulted in 74 deaths. Any resolution of the two nations' differences has now been put off until further talks can be arranged.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse discusses the first novel by Kate Horsley, A Killing in New Town. It's set in New Mexico territory in 1879, and follows the story of a woman whose children are kidnapped by a traveling salesman. [Stations: A Killing in New Town is published by La Alameda Press.)

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the victory of Democrat Carolyn McCarthy, giving her a House seat from New York state. McCarthy was widowed after the Long Island Railroad shootings, and defeated incumbent Republican freshman Daniel Frisa after he voted to repeal an assault weapons ban.

Leon Panetta about changes in the cabinet President Clinton may make and what's in store for the second term of the Clinton administration.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

on a study which finds that a number of small businesses account for most of the 10.5 million new jobs which have been created in the last four years. These rapid growth companies are referred to as, 'gazelles,' and include Netscape, Boston Market, and Southwest Airlines.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Ahmad Chalabi (CHA-la-bee), President of the Iraqi National Congress,--a coalition of Sunni, Shi'it and Kurdish opposition groups in Iraq--and Robert Satloff, Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East, about the future of opposition to Saddam Hussein.

whether to propose greater restrictions on the ownership of handguns. The initiative comes in reaction to the massacre at a school in Dunblane, Scotland last March.

Executive Director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, about next month's state legislative elections. Following the '94 elections, Republicans controlled both legislative chambers in 18 states, Democrats controlled both houses in 16 states, while the two parties split control in the other 16.

the Persian Gulf War to try and get further information about illnesses connected to the destruction of an Iraqi chemical weapons depot in 1991, which is now believed to have contained nerve gas.