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- President Clinton announced today he is convening a summit of Middle Eastern leaders in Washington early this week to calm the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting and to put the Middle East peace process back on track. NPR's John Neilsen reports on the political sensitivities surrounding the summit and the rival Israeli and Palestinian concepts of what conssitutes peace.

- Jackie speaks with Jordanian Information Minister Marwan Mu'asher about the current tensions between Jordan and Israel. Jordan, which has a peace treaty with Israel, was the only Arab country to welcome the election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last May. But Mu'asher says Netanyahu's performance since then has caused deep concerns in Jordan about the future of the Middle East peace process.

- Some 1.5 million elderly Americans live in nursing homes, where they receive medical and custodial care but are often denied the warmth and personal contact associated with a real home. Thomas Lalley of member station WAMC in Albany reports on a new kind of elderly care in New York state that could revolutionize the country's nursing homes.

NPR's David Welna reports from Managua on Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua. The two leading candidates are Daniel Ortega, former Sandinista president, and Arnoldo Aleman, the conservative former mayor of Managua. Aleman denies Ortega's charge that he represents a return to the days of the late dictator Anastasio Somoza, despite his popularity among supporters of the former Contra rebels. Aleman has vowed to cancel, or force compensation for, the thousands of property confiscations carried out by the Sandinistas when they were in power.

Journalist BILL MOYERS talks with Terry Gross about his new PBS 10-part series "Genesis: A Living Conversation." The series will premier Wednesday, Oct 16th on many PBS stations. It also has the companion book "Genesis: A Living Conversation." The book is published by Doubleday. Moyer's TV show features writers, theologians and artists discussing the first book in the bible.

Chris Nuttall from Ankara reports on the controversy surrounding Turkey's Prime Minister Necmettin Erbekan. He has outraged his domestic opponents by a trip to Libya, during which Moammer Khaddafi, at a joint news conference with Erbekan, called for an independent Kurdish state- an anathema to the Turks. He faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament. He has earned the anger of the Clinton Administration for the visit to Libya and one to Iran, and for the deals he has signed with countries on the U.S. embargo list.

Linda reads letters from listeners about three great American pastimes: baseball, politics...and kissing. To contact All Things Considered, write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, 20001.

2:Singer/songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. Previously with the band The Attractions, he later went solo. Since then he has performed and recorded with The Brodsky Quartet and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He's written about 300 songs. His latest release is "All This Useless Beauty" (Warner Bros) which he recorded with The Attractions. (REBROADCAST from 6

Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Neal speaks with John O'Brien, producer, director and writer of MAN WITH A PLAN, and the film's star, Fred Tuttle, about this political satire, which is showing this month in Washington, Los Angeles and New York.