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NPR's Ted Clark talks with Linda about the conclusion of President Clinton's emergency summit to restart the Middle East Peace Process, which ended with only an agreement to keep talking -- back in the Middle East -- starting next Sunday. Both Israel and the Palestinians remain as divided as they were last week about the issues that resulted in 74 deaths. Any resolution of the two nations' differences has now been put off until further talks can be arranged.

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NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton opened an emergency summit today between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Arafat. The meeting is an attempt to salvage the Middle East peace process, which unravelled in violence last week in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. But in the opening sessions of the two-day summit, there appeared to be more distrust and anger between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders than a commitment to seek compromise.

Noah talks with Ned Jarrett, a former four-time NASCAR champion who is now a color analyst for CBS and ESPN, about the late stock car builder and driver Banjo Matthews, who died earlier this week. He says Matthews was a tough competitor, but always fair. Matthews stressed safety in his designs; an aspect of his work triggered by the death of a close friend and fellow driver. Matthews drew on his experience behind the wheel to create winning designs for race cars.

2: British author A.S. BYATT. BYATT is known by many Americans for "Possession," a Booker Prize-winning Victorian novel published here in 1990. Her most recent novel is "Babel Tower." (Random House). Set in the turbulant 1960s, the book is about Frederica, a young woman involved in a divorce and custody suit, as well as the prosecution of an "obscene" book. "Babel Tower" is the third book in a planned quartet of novels ("The Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life") set in different mid- centuary time frames. Besides being a best selling author, BYATT is also a critic, a reviewer, a radio dramatist, an editor, and a university lecturer. The movie "Angels and Insects" which is based on Byatt's novella "Morpho Eugenia" has recently come out on home video. Originally aired 6/6/96.

In northern Wisconsin, Chippewa Indians still harvest wild rice by hand. Nick Van Der Puy [PIE] from member station WXPR in Rhinelander, Wisconsin visited one rice-harvesting camp, where family traditions and cultural heritage mix with economic opportunity.

Stephanie Griffith reports on the newfound popularity of American spirituals and gospel music in Paris. But there is some controversy over whose music it really is and whether it can be sung by just anyone. Say some, the color of one's skin or the country of one's origin does not make a difference in this matter - the despair, the "blues", that accompanies heartfelt spirituals and gospel is a human condition.

this week. It will be the second presidential debate, and some observers expect Dole to focus more closely on Clinton's character.

did not win as many votes as he had hoped in order to ensure his party's survival for four more years.

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Reviewer Alan Cheuse discusses the first novel by Kate Horsley, A Killing in New Town. It's set in New Mexico territory in 1879, and follows the story of a woman whose children are kidnapped by a traveling salesman. [Stations: A Killing in New Town is published by La Alameda Press.)

whether to propose greater restrictions on the ownership of handguns. The initiative comes in reaction to the massacre at a school in Dunblane, Scotland last March.