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NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the mood in Jerusalem in the aftermath f hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu's election as prime minister.

CIA & DIPLOMATS: NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr comments on he uncozy relationship between the CIA and the diplomatic corps.

Don Vitale (vih-TAHL) of U-S Assist discusses his work with host iane Hansen. U-S Assist provides clients everything from medical evacuations verseas to bizarre requests like elephant rides at a high school prom.

the new labor initiative with a well-coordinated counterattack. They plan to label the campaign as an attempt by Washington union bosses to tell rank and file members what to do in an effort to enhance the union leadership's power. The GOP has filed complaints about union spending with the Federal Election Commission, but the law governing such independent expenditures is murky. Peter Overby reports.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from Beirut on the fourth day of hostilities between Israel and Hizbullah fighters in Lebanon.

Members of the House and Senate conference comittee today announced their agreement on the final version of a counter-terrorism bill. The legislation makes it easier to deport terrorists, bans terrorist groups from fund-raising in the U.S., provides extra funding for police efforts, and requires some explosives to be tagged. It also limits court appeals by death row inmates. The final bill restores a number of items which the Clinton administration favored that had passed the Senate but had been removed in the House. Both houses are expected to vote this week. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Bombing between Israeli forces and Hezbollah continues. Clashes between the two groups have existed for years. Linda Wertheimer talks with Judith Miller, New York Times correspondent and author of several books about the Middle East. She discuss the historical roots of Hezbollah and talks about previous clashes between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Judith Miller has a new book out, God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East (Simon & Schuster).

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses the politics of welfare reform with Douglas Besharov, of the American Enterprise Institute, and David Ellwood of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

SUNDAY MAY 26,

The ceasefire in Liberia that has kept warring factions peaceful for almost two weeks has been broken. U.S. Marines today killed three Liberians near the American Embassy compound in Monrovia and wounded a fourth. The men were shot after fighting broke out in the capital. An American soldier was slightly wounded in today's fighting. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.

Commentator Marianne Jennings wonders about people who are addicted to their day planners...they are obsessed with organizing everything in their lives. It takes so much time to keep up with your day planner--there's so much writing and reviewing she wonders how anyone gets anything done...and says we all managed just fine without them.

Robert talks to Mike Agnes, the editorial director for Webster's New World College Dictionary about words that are under consideration for the next edition of the dictionary... including "duh."