Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak sent a security aide to meet with Yasser Arafat night to ask the Palestinian leader to halt the ongoing violence, an Israeli source said. Top security officials from the two sides were scheduled to meet to resume talks that were broken off nearly two weeks ago.
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