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Linda Wertheimer talks with Yaron Ezrachi (ya-ROWN ez RAHK ee) and Tommy Lapid (la PEED) about shifts in attitudes about the peace process, as reflected in the Israeli election. Ezrachi is a political science professor at Hebrew University, and a fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Lapid is the chief editorial writer for the newspaper Ma'ariv (ma- a-REEV).

the 75th anniversary of the 1921 race riots. The riots resulted in dozens of deaths and the destruction of many homes and business owned by the town's prosperous black community.

- NPR's Phillip Davis reports from London that a bomb has exploded in Manchester, England today (Saturday) injuring about 200 people. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but British Prime Minister John Major blames the Irish Repubican Army.

- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu retired today as Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa. For the record, we play an excerpt from a sermon Tutu gave at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., in December, 1984.

- Daniel talks with David Tuller about his book, "Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia" (Faber & Faber) which looks at the life of homosexuals in Russia. Tuller says although Russian society is more tolerant of homosexuals in some aspects, it is still far from embracing homosexual lifestyles. Gay bashing is still prevalent and police often turn a blind eye to crimes against homosexuals.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that Palestinians have mixed feelings about the apparent victory of Benjamin Netanyahu (net-ahn-YAH-hoo). Some say that Israelis have voted against peace, while others believe that a Likud government may not be so bad after all.

Noah and Linda read from listeners' letters. They'll include comments on the Israeli and Russian elections, the Olympic torch run, and childcare in casinos. (To send letters to All Things Considered, mail to All Things Considered Letters, c/o NPR News, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC, 20009...or via e-mail at ATC at NPR dot COM.)

Commentator Leslie Lang describes the charming tradition in Hawaii of draping graduating seniors in stacks of colorful leis, one on top of another, and how she had three near misses in terms experiencing this tradition at her graduations... until finally getting it right, this year, at the University of Hawaii.

Journalist and author VERONCA CHAMBERS. Her new memoir, "Mama's Girl" (Riverhead Books), describes her ascent from childhood poverty into the middle class. Growing up in the 1970s in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, CHAMBERS struggled to ease the strain on her single mother and to help her brother stay out of trouble. She overcame racial stereotypes by excelling in the gifted and talented program in school and graduating from college at the age of 20. She is a former editor of the New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to Essence, Seventeen and the New York Times Book Review. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

NPR's Peter Overby reports that a ruling today by the Supreme Court appeared to open the way for a whole new category of campaign spending by political parties on congressional campaigns. The court said the Federal Election Commission was wrong when it cited the Colorado Republican Party for exceeding federal spending limits after it spent $15,000 on radio ads in 1986 against a Democratic Senate candidate. Such expenditures, as long as they are made independently of a particular candidate's campaign, should not be limited, the court said.