Bush Extends Welcome Mat to New Palestinian Leader

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WASHINGTON -- President Bush offered Monday to meet at the White House with newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and planned to talk to him by telephone this week, putting out a welcome mat that was never there for Yasser Arafat.

Still, Bush gave no sign that he was relenting in the demands he had made of Abbas' late predecessor -- that the Palestinian leader fight terror against Israel and put together a strong security system to support that stance.

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Bush Extends Welcome Mat to New Palestinian Leader

Proposals by Europeans and others that Bush jump in quickly to press for an Israeli rollback on the West Bank apparently did not impress the administration, despite the emergence of a Palestinian l...

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