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NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Damascus on fears of widening conflict in the Middle East. Tensions are growing between Israel and Syria over that country's support for Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on the problems that riddled the presidential election in Illinois last November. Florida may have gotten more coverage, but Chicago had more election errors than any other city in the country.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the international tensions between the United States and China. The already strained situation was exacerbated by an incorrect memo leaked yesterday ordering a halt to all Pentagon contact with the Chinese military.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Daniel Schorr about his new book, Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism. Schorr is currently an NPR news analyst, but in 60 years of journalism, he has worked a lot of beats, and collected a lot of stories. (8:58

Seven Americans were among those killed in a helicopter crash today in Vietnam. The aircraft was carrying a team searching for Americans missing in action during the Vietnam war. Lt. Col. Franklin Childress, of the Joint Task Force Full Accounting, speaks with host Lisa Simeone.

We return to the National Story Project and Paul Auster for more of your stories.

Scott talks with two of the thirteen people who took a Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in 1961. At the time he joined the ride, B. Elton Cox was minister living in High Point, North Carolina. Edward Blankenheim was a student at the University of Arizona.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell reviews the movie Memento.

Scott talks to Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about the career of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Naxos Records is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with a series of Heifetz's orchestral recordings from the 1930's and 40's. Heifetz died in 1987, but is still considered the greatest violinist of the 20th century.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the controversy surrounding the continuing investigation into the finances of Jesse Jackson and his organization, the Citizen Education Fund.