This is the time for Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to stop Palestinian attacks on Israelis, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said. Speaking on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press,” Powell also said he fears that a retaliatory strike by Israel in response to last Friday’s suicide bombing could plunge the region into “an abyss that we might not be able to get out of.”
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