U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon over the weekend to urge him to hold cease-fire talks with the Palestinian Authority. Powell also called Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and “reiterated the need to take sustained and effective steps” to enforce a cease-fire Arafat announced last week, according to State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
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