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NPR's Eric Weiner reports that a third bombing in two days has brought a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He says the Mideast peace process cannot continue amid Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets. Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with President Clinton next week to discuss ways of salvaging the peace effort.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that Jordan's King Hussein met with President Clinton today following new violence between Israel and Palestinians. Jordan is concerned about a possible breakdown in the Mideast peace process... and the negative consequences for Amman.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that this time the Middle East peace process will need a real push from both sides--and from President Clinton--if it is to get back on track.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on Judge Richard Matsch's decision to keep much of the jury selection process behind closed doors in the trial of Timothy McVeigh. The public can hear jurors answer preliminary questions by lawyers and the judge, but arguments over whether particular jurors should be included or excluded are taking place out of public view, in the judge's chambers.

to join the peace process during his meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Clinton hope the recent Hebron Accord signing will encourage other Mid-East leaders to join the effort. Netanyahu remains in Washington D.C. today to meet with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

Some Israelis think the way out of the current crisis with the Palestinians is to form a National Unity government. By sharing power with the opposition Labor Party, Prime Minister Netanyahu would have an easier time moving forward with the peace process. Israel's two major political parties have worked together before, but critics say this time they are too far apart ideologically for a National Unity government to succeed. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

Attorney General Janet Reno faces a decision this week on whether to appoint a special counsel to investigate charges of campaign finance irregularities by Reno's boss, President Clinton. She also faces a new round of criticism if she decides no special investigator is needed. Critics say Reno is beholden to Mr Clinton for her job, so she can't be objective. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that attorneys general often have been cronies of the presidents who appointed them, and Congress passed the laws that led to the current appointment process.

The electric utility industry is in the process of being restructured, with an emphasis on the creation of open competition. But private utilities claim that the mammoth public companies will have an unfair advantage when the market finally opens up. Thomas Lalley of member station WAMC in Albany, New York reports.

Despite three weeks of violent demonstrations and terrorist attacks, a majority of Israelis and Palestinians still support the peace process. But recent surveys reveal that the support is beginning to erode. A growing number of Palestinians say they approve of violent attacks against Israel, and a majority of Israelis rank the chances of war with Arabs as 'very high'. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on proposals by Congress and the Administration to double the number of baby adoptions to 54-thousand placements by the year 2002. Child welfare experts say the proposals - designed to speed up the adoption process - reflect a major philosophical shift in the way the government looks at adoptions.

Robert talks with Murray Edelman, editorial director of the Voter News Service, about the process of exit polling, in light of that group's error in pronouncing Democrat Dick Swett the winner in New Hampshire's Senate race.

The nation's fiercest and most protracted environmental battles in recent years have centered on endangered species and the Endangered Species Act. Efforts to protect the Snail Darter, the Northern Spotted Owl and dozens of other plants and animals which are dwindling in number have placed environmentalists in opposition with industrial interests and landowners. The result is often years of litigation and solutions that satisfy no one. Government officials in California are trying a new approach; they're using the Endangered Species Act to create a process that brings the parties in conflict into a negotiation over their differences.

Researchers have long been curious about how human memory works. In recent years, scientists have begun using new brain imaging technologies and other techniques to gain new insights into how the brain stores memories, and how those memories are later retrieved. In part of a special series on the brain, Michelle Trudeau explores the latest scientific understanding of how the brain processes memory.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on efforts to create vast new libraries on-line. While more and more information is being made available through computer networks, it's a surprisingly difficult and slow process to convert large amounts of written material into a form that can be easily accessed via computer.

about the significance of the Israel-Palestinian conflict for the Mid-East peace process (4:00).

Jason Beaubien reports on a controversy emerging in San Francisco between animal rights activists and Chinese food merchants. Often, Chinese merchants will sell living animals to their customers who believe that it's better to eat an animal that's just been slaughtered than one whose been processed and frozen. This cultural custom however makes some uncomfortable because they say the animals are killed in inhumane ways.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that in his second official visit to Washington since being elected Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is being told by President Clinton and others that they expect more concrete and tangible steps by Israel to keep the Middle East process alive. Specifically, US officials are suggesting they would like to see an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank Palestinian town of Hebron, as had been negotiated --but never carried out -- prior to Netanyahu's election.

Viewership of this year's first presidential debate was down by a third compared to 1992, according to a new survey. But for many of those who did tune in, the debate marked the first time they paused to think about the 1996 campaign, the political process and what it means for their lives. NPR's Steve Inskeep listened in on one such group of voters to learn how they reacted to the candidate match-up.

- President Clinton announced today he is convening a summit of Middle Eastern leaders in Washington early this week to calm the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and to put the Middle East peace process back on track. NPR's John Neilsen reports on the political sensitivities surrounding the summit and the rival Israeli and Palestinian concepts of what conssitutes peace.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on today's federal indictment of three former executives of agribusiness giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and a Japanese businessman in connection with a scheme to fix prices for a common feed additive -- part of a scheme that cost customers millions, according to the Justice Department. A federal grand jury in Chicago indicted Michael D. Andreas, former executive vice president and Terrence S. Wilson, head of corn-processing for ADM, and Mark E. Whitacre, a fired ADM executive who was an FBI informant in the case. A Korean company also agreed to plead guilty to related charges and pay a $1.25 million fine for its role in the conspiracy.

Robert talks with David Makovsky, the diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and the author of Making Peace with the PLO. They discuss the progress of the peace process in the Middle East following last month's violence in that region, focusing on the reasons that American negotiator Dennis Ross left the most recent round of talks. They also talk about the role of French President Jacques Chirac in the mediation process, and the likelihood that Syria might be brought back into the peace negotiations.

Ted Clark reports that after a meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and President Clinton today both leaders expressed the hope that Israel would not abandon the peace process begun with the historic Oslo accords. But they also voiced concern about the impact on that peace process of reported plans by Israel to build two new highways into the occupied West Bank.

- The United States is frantically trying to arrange a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO leader Yasir Arafat after four days of fierce fighting in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. Danny speaks with Terje Larsen, the Special U.N. Coordinator in the West Bank and Gaza about the dangers facing the peace process. Then NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the communal tensions that still grip the area.

go to the polls tomorrow, will be immigrants who have just received their U.S. citizenship. But the Republicans continue to charge there were irregularities in the naturalization process.

Ted Clark reports on growing U.S. concern that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies encouraging new Jewish settlement in occupied Arab lands are a direct threat to a long term peace between Israelis and Palestinians as envisaged in the Oslo peace accords. While Netanyahu's rhetoric continues to endorse the peace process, U.S. officials worry that his acts are increasingly an obstacle to the success of that process.