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Monday January 10, 2005

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Week of January 10, 2005

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10:00Palestinian Presidential Election

Diane and her guests talk about Sunday's Palestinian presidential election, and prospects for peace in the Middle East.

Guests

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

Dennis Ross, former Middle East Special Coordinator, counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

11:00Nick Kotz: "Judgment Days" (Houghton Mifflin)

President Lyndon Johnson and clergyman Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the fight for civil rights. Their relationship was finally severed by King's opposition to the Vietnam war. Journalist Nick Kotz explains how previously unreleased documents shed new light on the relationship between these two towering figures of the 1960s.

Guests

Nick Kotz, author of five books on American history and public policy, is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

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