Powell Puts Off Arafat Meeting

(CBS) His peacekeeping mission rocked by a terrorist bombing, Secretary of State Colin Powell has postponed a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian information minister said.

The meeting originally was to take place Saturday. Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said U.S. officials informed the Palestinians the meeting was being postponed, possibly to Sunday.

Just hours after a suicide bomber struck near a Jerusalem marketplace Friday, the White House called on Arafat to publicly denounce the terrorist act and the State Department said Powell would decide later whether to see Arafat as planned.

"He's looking at the whole situation in terms of the bombing and everything," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.