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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that already the bulldozers are out and Israelis are looking to expand into the suburbs of Jerusalem. The expansion is in line with the vision of Prime Minister elect-Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said Jerusalem will not be divided with the Palestinians.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the current battle over the future of Medicare is a political one and does not address the real problems of its apparently imminent bankruptcy.

Edward Lifson talks with people in Chicago about why they don't vote.

the British colony of Hong Kong. Beijing has promised to let Hong Kong remain as it is for 50 years, but surveys indicate widespread pessimism among Hong Kong residents about their future...

President Clinton was in Greeleyville, South Carolina today to visit the place where an African-American church was burned down last year. He also went to the site of the new Mount Zion AME Church, where he called on all Americans to help put an end to the recent string of church fires. We'll hear excepts from his speech.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that one of Japan's biggest companies is implicated in a growing scandal involving copper trading. Investigators in Britain and the United States are looking into whether the company may have approved of the actions of its star trader to allegedly hoard copper to help drive up its price.

Robert talks to Robert Gates, director of the Central Intelligence Agency from November of 1991 to January of 1993. He has written the new book "From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War." Gates says that many foreign policy decisions that are credited to Ronald Reagan, including supporting the Contras in Nicaragua, were actually policies secretly started by Jimmy Carter.

Scott remembers Judge Elbert Tuttle, who died this week.

Scott speaks with Brian (BREE-on) Moore, who's latest novel, "The Statement," is about the involvement of the French Catholic Church in hiding war criminals after the Second World War. (publisher: Dutton).

- Everyone knows what a minister does on Sunday, but what about the rest of the week? In this documentary produced by Jay Allison, Reverend Susan Johnson reflects on her daily life as the minister of Hyde Park Union Church in Chicago. Allison gave Johnson a tape recorder, which she carried around for two months this year, creating an audio journal of her life. She sent 30 hours of tape to Allison, who culled it down to our piece.