1.  Meanwhile, senior American officials will be meeting with Palestinians close to Yasser Arafat to discuss how to advance peacemaking on that troubled front.

2.  Meanwhile, senior American officials will meet with Palestinians close to Yasser Arafat to discuss how to advance peacemaking on that troubled front.

3.  Meanwhile, senior U.S. officials will be meeting with Palestinians close to Yasser Arafat to discuss how to advance peacemaking on that troubled front.

4.  Meanwhile, senior American officials will meet with Palestinians close to Arafat to discuss how to advance peacemaking on that troubled front.

5.  On the other troubled front, Palestinians fired mortar on an Israeli settlement in Gaza.