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NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on the closing stages of the Millennium Summit at the United Nations. Capping today's schedule — a signing by more than 150 world leaders of a final declaration in which they vow to spare no effort to end war, poverty and environmental degradation.

Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ted Clark about the Middle East summit. Jerusalem appears to be the hardest issue to resolve. Today negotiations are on hold at Camp David because of the Jewish Sabbath. They are expected to resume when President Clinton returns from Japan.

A new book, Peril, says the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was attempting to head off a potential armed conflict when he called his Chinese counterpart twice in Trump's final months in office.

Scott reads letters from listeners. 2:30.

Linda interviews Julie Bell, lead archaeologist for Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado about new sites discovered after a fire last week. Mesa Verde is the nation's largest archaeological preserve, with more than 4000 identified sites.

Commentator Lis Wiehl explains that tribal courts, which operate on many Indian reservations, function separately from the federal court system. These courts have not had to apply the U.S. Constitution directly, leaving out Constitutional guarantees like the right to free legal counsel. But one of the problems with suspending Constitutional protections, is that convictions obtained in tribal courts can be used against defendants later in federal and state courts.

A note on some of the other stories on today's program.

Robert talks with Janet Hook, Chief Congressional Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times about Richard Cheney's record as a member of Congress.

Robert discusses Cheney's experience as Secretary of Defense with Michael Gordon, a reporter for the New York Times.

Commentator Kelly Roberty is a professional musician -- he plays the bass. Recently he sat down with his bass and told us his story of getting addicted to gambling. He lost everything -- more than 70-thousand dollars, his friends and family, his wife left him, and he pawned his bass as part of it all. At rock bottom, he had a breakdown, and an epiphany, an understanding of hope and redemption and courage to turn things around. He explains how he turned it all around. Roberty now is living in Bozeman Montana, is teaching music and will be touring Europe with a jazz sextet later this fall.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports from Dallas on Dick Cheney's five-year tenure as Chief Executive of Halliburton Company, the world's largest provider of oil field equipment and services. Using his experience as Defense Secretary, Cheney transformed Halliburton into a much larger and more profitable company. He also used the connections he'd made at DOD to expand Halliburton's international operations. As a result, Cheney and the company both have profited handsomely.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on the questions being raised about the way the 2000 Census was conducted. Republican Congressman Dan Miller of Florida chairs the House Subcommittee on the Census. He says that irregular procedures and fraud may have increased the head count in several cities, where there was initial resistance to the Census. The cities include Chicago, West Atlanta, Las Vegas, Florence, Alabama, and Hialeah, Florida.