GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: President Clinton staying at the White House to follow developments in the region. He has canceled a political trip today. Kelly Wallace is at the executive mansion for us -- Kelly.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well that's exactly right, Gene. Mr. Clinton was to have gone to Ohio and Indiana for Democratic Party fund-raising trips and then up to New York this evening. But as you said, he is remaining here at the White House so that he can monitor developments in the Middle East. Mr. Clinton is working the phones behind the scenes. So far he has spoken with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak earlier this morning. He had two conversations with Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and one talk with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. White House officials are not offering many details about those conversations except to say that the president is working hard to try to stem all forms of violence in the region, and working with all sides to restore calm, and get back to the peace process. Now as for those tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border, a U.S. official familiar with intelligence reports says that Israel is beginning to move military ground forces within the country after the capture of those three Israeli soldiers, but this official stresses it is not clear what action these units might be preparing for, if any. Another issue Mr. Clinton and the rest of the White House national security team is very focused on is a proposed United Nations Security Council resolution dealing with the violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians over these past several days. The current draft of the resolution condemns the quote, "excessive force against the Palestinian population," but does not specifically name the Israelis. Nonetheless, the U.S. is quite concerned that the current wording of that resolution would make it more difficult to end the violence between the two sides. U.S. officials trying to make sure that any resolution is helpful to the situation and acceptable to both sides -- Gene.</s>RANDALL: Kelly Wallace at the White House. Thank you, Kelly.
President Clinton Works Phones to Stem Middle East Violence