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Liane Hansen speaks with Salameh Ne'Matt (SAH-luh-may ay-MAHT), correspondent for the largest Arabic daily, Al-Hayat (ahl-hi-YAHT), bout Jordan's view of last week's Cairo summit meeting between Israel, the alestinians, Jordan, and Egypt.

Michelle Corum of Interlochen Public Radio has a report on a paramilitary group in Michigan called the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. The group says it is preparing to the day when it will have to protect itself and others against "those who break the constitution" at home and abroad. But, some law enforcement and civil rights organizations are worried that such groups will go from extremism to terrorism.

STAMBERG/SCHORR: SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DANIEL SCHORR TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Mail Divorce - Host Daniel Zwerdling speaks with Danelle Morton who negotiated her divorce via E-Mail. She decided she didn't want to use a lawyer and that person to person negotiations became too emotional, so she turned to E-Mail.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz challenges listeners to puzzles and word ames. 7:30 This week's on-air player lives in Huntsville, Alabama and listens to

Liane Hansen speaks with writer Anne Lamott. The author of the est-selling "Operating Instructions -- A Journal of My Son's First Year," has a ew book: "Bird by Bird -- Some Instructions on Writing and Life" (Pantheon ooks).

SUSAN STAMBERG REMEMBERS JAMES P. GRANT WHO DIED LAST SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 72. HE WAS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF UNICEF - THE UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - FOR 15 YEARS.

SPORTS: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT THE TALKS BEING HELD THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BETWEEN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL OWNERS AND PLAYERS.

NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS FROM BOSTON ON ONE MASSACHUSETTS FAMILY'S EFFORTS TO DONATE THEIR LARGE, FULLY EQUIPPED HOME TO THE STATE FOR THEIR TWIN MENTALLY RETARDED SONS, AGE 22, AND OTHERS TO LIVE IN. THE STATE CANNOT ACCEPT THE HOME BECAUSE IT CAN'T AFFORD TO STAFF IT.

NPR's Isabel Alegria reports that a Republican lawmaker in the state of California has proposed legislation that would cancel affirmative action programs in the public sector. Two California academics have written what they call the California Civil Rights Initiative, that would also bar the state from granting preferences based on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin, if voters were to pass the initiative.

Nina Teicholz reports on the changing job market. Many college seniors are anxious that they will not get jobs, but in fact it is just the types of jobs available that are changing. There are going to be more employment opportunities in the health care and telecommunications industries in the future.

Writer MARITA GOLDEN, author of "Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World" (Doubleday). GOLDEN writes about bringing up her son in Washington D.C., where homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males between 18 and 24. In the preface, she says, "I stopped work on a novel in order to write this book. The unremitting press of young lives at risk, the numbing stubbornness of annual, real-life death tolls, rendered fiction suddenly unintriguing, vaguely obscene." She has instead written a book called "moving, disturbing and important" by Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's' Defense Fund.