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Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Ted Clark about the visit of Israeli Prime Minister to the White House. President Clinton and Prime Minister Peres are considering increased cooperation between the US and Isreal along with continuing joint efforts to fight terrorism.

Shoko Asahara, leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, who has been charged with masterminding the Sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo subway last year...

Clarinetist, bandleader, and curmudgeon...but kind of a right-on curmudgeon. Shaw quit playing music more than thirty years ago...just when he had what most might consider "it all": money, fame, beautiful wives (lots of them). Now he lives alone and writes novels and short stories. Dean Olsher visited him at home and has this report.

Noah talks with Bobby Plump, who scored the winning shot in the 1954 Milan Indiana high school basketball championship which was the depicted in the movie "Hoosiers". Plump organized the group "Friends of Hoosier Hysteria," to fight against a change in the traditional one-class tournament system. The group lost its fight today when the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted today to change to a multi class tournament format based on school enrollment.

Novelist KAYE GIBBONS. She's the author of several acclaimed novels: Ellen Foster and Charms for the Easy Life. One reviewer says "Gibbon's brilliance lies in examining with unsentimental tenderness a family poised on the brink of disaster." GIBBONS' novel, Sights Unseen (Putnam) is about a girl's life with her manic-depressive mother. GIBBONS herself has the illness, and she'll talk with Terry about that.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on how the war in Liberia has affected the country's Lebanese community. The Lebanese have been in Liberia for about a hundred years, and they control much of business. The war has driven most of the original community of fifteen thousand Lebanese out of the country. About two hundred are holding out, however, including two Lebanese who have kept the capital's only hotel running despite the city's plunge into anarchy over the past month.

Robert talks with Brian Hanrahan of the BBC about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to Syria. Christopher met with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus to discuss the possibility of securing a ceasefire in Lebanon. President Clinton sent Christopher on a diplomatic shuttle to the Middle East after Israeli shelling killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians last Thursday.

Bob Mondello reviews HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF, a movie that's literally about love in the time of cholera. It's a swashbuckling romance from the director of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

Noah talks to Fred Davis, a computer consultant and author of "Windows '95 Bible." Davis is at the Internet World conference in San Jose, California. He says that the big new technologies at the convention talk... they allow voice conversations, like phone conversations, over the Internet. The URL for the convention is HTTP://www.iworld.com/

that Ford Motor Company has announced what could be the largest recall program in the history of the auto industry. Ford is offering to fix faulty ignition switches on more than 8 million vehicles manufactured between 1988 and 1993. The ignition switches can short circuit, leaving Ford vehicles vulnerable to fire.

Mike Shuster examines the relative ease with which weapons grade nuclear material might be smuggled out of the former Soviet Union and into the United States.