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A week ago, Haiti marked the one year anniversary of President Jean Bertrand Aristide's return to power. Daniel updates the situation in Haiti with New York Times reporter Larry Rohter, who recently visited Haiti.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan talks to furloughed workers and others about how the most recent Republican proposal to reopen the federal government would affect their lives and livelihood.

A second round of peace talks between Israeli and Syrian negotiators ended today at a secluded plantation outside Washington. NPR's Ted Clark reports that the talks have set the stage for Secretary of State Warren Christopher's visit to the Middle East next week.

Linda talks with Geoffrey E. Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade and now Dean of Yale's School of Management, about Ryutaro Hashimoto (RI-OO-TA-ROH HA-SHI-MO-TO), who's expected to be Japan's next Prime Minister.

Karen Grigsby Bates says the financial success of "Waiting To Exhale" should act as a wake up call to studio executives. She says black women make up an important demographic group, with which spends money big time! And she calls on Hollywood to make more movies about middle class blacks.

Fifty years ago from tomorrow, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial got underway in Nuremberg Germany. 24 Nazi leaders, officials and industrialists were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the second day of the trial, Robert Jackson, chief US prosecutor delivered his opening statement that lasted the better part of a day. Here's an excerpt.

Daniel talks with Jodi Cobb, a National Geographic Photographer, about her new book 'Geisha'. Cobb's book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes in the Geisha houses where she shows us the women not only in their usual ritual costumes, but also with their hair down, after their clients have gone home. Cobb says that contrary to popular belief in the west, Geisha's do not provide sex for their clients. Rather the Geisha's role is more to preserve the high arts of traditional Japan.

Noah Adams speaks with Rev. Jim Renfrew, pastor of Stone Church, Presbyterian Church in Bergen, NY, about the delights of winter. He says the steady snowfall quiets the city, and members of the community take extra time to look after each other.

Bob Mondello reviews the new film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, which he says is one of the best, though not one of the most pleasant, films of last year. Sarandon plays a nun who serves a spiritual adviser to a man who faces execution for murder.

and the latest troubles facing the First Lady.

Weekend All Things Considered invites listeners to call in and share their most frightening experiences (that really turned out to be nothing serious).

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the film "Restoration," which stars Robert Downey, Jr.

Daniel talks with Kevin and Todd Berger. They've written two books about why Americans are becoming increasingly hostile while out driving in their cars. They say that one of the reasons is that while commuters in general are travelling shorter distances to get to work...they're spending more time doing so.

Film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at a new Italian movie by the same director who made "Stolen Children". In this film, director Gianni Amelio explores the dire effects of the coming of capitalism to Albania.

NPR'S Ted Clark looks back at the Gulf War with 20-20 hindsight, pointing out what predictions made at the time turned out to be right and what ones were completely wrong.

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews Jamaica Kincaid's fourth novel, Autobiography of My Mother, which is set once again in her native country of Dominica in the Carribean. (publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux)

Producer Ginna Allison sends us this story of one of the most famous of American folk songs, "John Henry", and of the man and community behind it. John Henry was a black railroad worker who's said to have died after outperforming a mechanized railroad spike driver back in the 19th century. He is said to have come from Talcott (pronounced: TALL-cut), a small town in West Virginia. Allison brings us the voices of Talcott's people...and the music of Doc Watson and John Cephas...which echo the exploits of John Henry, and reveal how the racially diverse community views the song, the town's history, and each other.

Jacki talks with Aziz Abu-Hammad of the Middle East Human Rights Watch about the potential for political instability in Saudi Arabia. The bombing of an American run military training facility a few weeks ago has raised eyebrows and created a sense that opposition to the Royal family in Saudi Arabia may be growing.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on a new book that contains information for parents who are looking for quality alternative schools for their children.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has a story about a bear named No Neck, who walked across the Florida Panhandle and three states until he got to Baton Rouge. Why Baton Rouge? Only No Neck knows.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the latest discussions among America's major trading partners about their possible retaliation for the Helms-Burton law. Helms-Burton punishes certain foreign companies that do business in Cuba; it's the most drastic law of its kind ever enacted in the United States. Mexico, Canada, and the European Union have not yet announced specific counter-measures, but recent history with similar laws shows that foreign governments can make it illegal for their companies to follow U-S orders.

Rolf Ekeus, the head of the U.N. Commission in charge of monitoring Iraq's compensation with orders to disarm itself, has stated that he believes Iraq still has significant stores of chemical and biological weapons, as well as long-range missiles. The BBC's Rob Watson reports.

President Clinton announced his support today for a constitutional amendment to protect the rights of crime victims. A spokesman says Mr. Clinton is not endorsing any specific proposal, but the general idea of such an amendment. The probable Republican presidential nominee, Bob Dole, already has come out in favor of a victims' rights amendment. The version Dole is supporting would make sure crime victims are notified of court proceedings, given the chance to be heard on plea bargains and sentencing, and informed if the offender escapes or is released from jail. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

The General Accounting Office released a study today that public school buildings and facilities throughout the country are in disrepair. The problems include plumbing, heating and crumbling foundations. NPR's Cheryl Devall reports that local school districts are calling for more federal and state funding to help solve these problems.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls. Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. CHINA DISSIDENT -- Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jenn-DREEZ-sick), the Washington Director of Human Rights Watch-Asia. Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai (WAHNG dong-HY) after he and six other activists petitioned the National People's Congress on May 27th, demanding the release of political prisoners. Mr. Jendrzejczyk believes that paranoia in the Chinese government toward the democracy movement has increased in recent months as economic reforms have triggered more unrest. This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.