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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.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that American diplomats in China met for a third time today with the detained U.S. air crew, characterizing them as in "very high spirits." But it's not clear how much longer the crew and their downed airplane will be held, as China holds out for an official apology from the U.S. government.

On Friday the Senate passed a budget resolution that reduces the President's proposed tax cut and significantly increases spending on health care. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Health Policy Reporter Julie Rovner about what the Senate's plan would pay for.

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

President Bush continues his baseball romance by throwing out the first pitch at Milwaukee's new ballpark tonight. The stadium project was dogged by problems from conception to completion, including a fatal crane accident, a political scandal and major cost overruns. Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

The Senate approved a budget last night, but with a tax cut smaller than President Bush asked for. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the spy plane incident and US-China relations with David Shambaugh, professor of international affairs at George Washington University and a China specialist at the Brookings Institution; and Don Oberdorfer, professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Iranian movie, The Day I Became A Woman. It tells the stories of a young girl, a young woman and an older woman in Iran, and their places in society. It opens today.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli government and many ordinary Israelis are holding Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Eight years ago, following signature of the Oslo accords, the Palestinian leader was hailed in Israel as a partner for peace, but few Israelis apparently still hold that view.

Robert Siegel talks to Helene Stapinksi, the author of Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, a book about growing up in Jersey City, N.J., where the whole town seemed to be on the take. (7:30) Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, by Helene Stapinski, is published by Random House, 2001, ISBN # 0679463062.