US: Arafat needs to do more

"The President continues to believe," White House spokesman said yesterday, "that Chairman Arafat has got to do more and to act in a concrete, lasting, meaningful, effective way to stop terrorism and to take action against terrorist groups in the Middle East."

This came in response to a question about Yasser Arafat's column in The New York Times, Sunday, February 3, in which the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority offered to hold talks with Israeli leaders