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Liane talks with NPR's Mike Shuster in Jerusalem as street fighting on the West Bank between stone-throwing Palestinians and armed Israeli troops continued into the weekend. In violence Saturday, four Palestinians died and more than 100 were injured.

Liane speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton about new and noteworthy cd releases. Also this week, Ned offers tips on trolling the Internet for music, and has some listening suggestions for fans dejected over the breakup of Phish.

In Mexico, the dangers involved in the sport of bullfighting have generated a strange breed of medical practitioner. Every arena employs at least one bullring surgeon, constantly at the ready to aid an injured matador. The bulls, however, are on their own. NPR's Gerry Hadden has the story.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr remembers Robert F. Kennedy, and disucusses how Kennedy's life changed after the assasination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Mark Manasse from San Francisco, California. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KQED and KALW, both in San Francisco.)

Liane talks with NPR's Rob Gifford about the upcoming talks between Secretary of State Madeline Albright and President Kim Jong Il of North Korea. The meeting could set the stage for a subsquent visit to North Korea by President Clinton.

Two weeks after the deposing of longtime President Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia is undergoing a cultural revival. Music, television and other arts which were tightly controlled under the former regime are enjoying new-found freedom of expression. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade.

Liane reads letters from listeners.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Cairo on the end of the emergency summit of 22 Arab nations.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that marine biologists are searching the waters along the coasts of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southern California for signs of the organism known to some as "killer algae." "Colepra Taxifolia" is widely believed to have first appeared in the Mediterranean. It doesn't actually harm people, but it does disturb underwater coastal ecosystems.