Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 893 Fri. December 01, 2006       World Abbas, Rice call for ME truce Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas sits across the table with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) during a meeting in the Palestinian West Bank oasis town of Jericho yesterday. Rice arrived from Jordan and swept into a meeting with the moderate Palestinian leader and his senior aides ahead of scheduled talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem later. PHOTO: AFP