Rice says peace talks progressing (AP)

In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, meets U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, in Jerusalem, Monday, March 31, 2008.  Rice was meeting Monday morning with the chief negotiators ? former Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ? after a similar three-way talk a day earlier produced a long list of Israeli gestures to ease restrictions in the West Bank.(AP Photo/ GPO, Moshe Milner, HO)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Mideast peace talks are “moving in the right direction,” although U.S. officials conceded it would be a hard slog to meet the goal of an Israeli-Palestinian deal in 2008.

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