Arafat meets with U.S. envoy over standoffs in West Bank

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- While an Israeli army bulldozer crushed cars in the parking lot outside, Yasser Arafat met with a U.S. envoy in his besieged office Monday to discuss the standoffs there and at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.

To continue reading
For more than 115 years, the Southeast Missourian has written the first draft of local history. We have aspired to enrich, entertain, educate and inform. Our core values have remained firm: truth, service, quality, integrity and community. Support our mission.