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Tuesday October 16, 2007

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10:00Israel, Syria, and U.S Diplomatic Efforts in the Middle East

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas in hopes of gaining support for a U-S sponsored peace conference. We'll talk about U.S diplomatic efforts in the region and on-going questions about the Israeli air strike in Syria last month.

Guests

Martin Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland and author of "The Stakes: America and the Middle East" (Westview Press)

Joseph Cirincione, senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress

11:00Lynne Cheney: " Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Famly" (Simon & Schuster)

Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, talks about growing up in Casper Wyoming, the westward journeys of her forebears, and her life in Washington today.

Guests

Lynne Cheney, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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