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NPR's Ted Clark previews the Camp David Summit between Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which begins today, under the auspices of President Clinton. The objective is to resolve the seemingly intractable problems that stand in the way of a permanent peace agreement between the Israeli and Palestinian people.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that a fourth police officer has been charged with misconduct in the ongoing probe of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department. New charges have also been filed against two of three officers already facing trial.

From member station WSHU, Tandaleya Wilder reports that private parks and beaches in Greenwich, Connecticut may soon be open to the public. Many in the upscale community, which is on the outskirts of New York City, argue that opening their beaches and parks to non-residents would be disastrous.

Commentator Matt Miller says, he has an idea that will save Television executives from airing boring programs and serve a societal purpose. If death penalty fans consider capital punishment to be a deterrent, he says, airing executions should persuade people not to kill one another.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Matt Ridley, a science writer for the London Telegraph and the author of the book Genome, about what the implications are for knowing how to map the entire human genome.

In the second installment of our series on national missile defense, NPR's Mike Shuster examines some of the technical problems scientists would have to overcome, in order to make a missile defense system operational and effective.

KERN INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES CONTINUED.12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next fresh air. . . our encore presentations of our American popular song series continues, with the early theatre songs of Jerome Kern, the songs he wrote before such hits as smoke gets in your eyes, and the way you look tonight. Join us for the next Fresh Air.

In the second report on the current Supreme Court, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports on a number of decisions the Supreme Court reached this term. The justices were divided along ideological lines, with the conservative block dominating for most of the decisions. Many of the rulings though, concerned limiting federal power, striking down more federal laws than upheld. The decisions upheld tended to be earlier liberal Supreme Court rulings, such as when they reaffirmed Miranda.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the NAACP convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Yesterday before a skeptical audience Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush said he recognized that the Republican Party has not always been seen as friendly toward blacks and promised to work to improve relations.

50 years ago this month a rag tag team of soccer enthusiasts from the United States went to Brazil to participate in the World Cup Soccer Tournament. They played a very strong, very self-assured English team and won. Scott speaks about this game with Peter Chapman, reporter for the Financial Times of London and author of the new book The Goalkeeper's History of Britain. (Fourth Estate Press, UK)