Bush Tries to Revive Mideast Peace Talks.

Trying to breathe new life into the Mideast peace process, President Bush got an immediate reminder Monday of the difficulty of his task when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insisted a U.S.-brokered conference should deal with "issues of substance." [...]

The administration's new effort shows that the Mideast now has the full attention of the White House, said Linda Jamison, a senior fellow on multilateral affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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