U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called on Israel to loosen its siege of Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters. Easing restrictions on Arafat would give the Palestinian Authority president a chance “to show whether or not he can control forces or bring this security situation under control,” Powell said Sunday on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press.”
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