Sweetwater/ Bistro ■ Continental Cuisine some of our specialities Trout Florentine Chicken Marengo Fresh trout stuffed with herbed vegetables du chef, roasted garlic & white wine, then oven baked to perfection. This famous French classic is named so because it was first eaten by Napoleon after the battle of Marengo in 1800. Chicken Medallions roasted to perfection, served with a generous portion of mushroom wine sauce. Classic Beef Stroganoff A 19th century dish created for Count Pavel Stroganoff, a dignitary and a noted gourmet at the court of the Russian Czar Alexander Lean sirloin beef pieces sautéed and then simmered in sour cream, Madeira wine, mushrooms, onions, parsley and dill. The Noose Tightens One month after the market blast in Jerusalem, Bethlehem remains under military curfew. 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On a normal August "This is a ghost town," AB edouin day you would have to el- says Mayor Hanna Nass- bow your way through a worn an urges er, waving from his office crush of Palestinian moth- her d onkey to a over an empty Manger ers, prodding for ripeness, water hose on a Square. "The people are dese road bargaining over price, lug- near rted the West very close to losing hope. ging home plastic baskets The prime minister of Is- B ank. of grapes, bananas and rael is killing the spirit of eggplants, mint and parsley, all the peace process." the fruits of the earth and the Nasser estimates the loss of in- tree. come from tourism, olive wood, Today the market is deserted. mother-of-pearl and textile fac- Masalmeh, who supports an ex- tories, farms and outside jobs in tended family of 22 children, par- the first month of the siege at $7 ents, brothers and sisters, opens million. About 80 percent of the his cash box to reveal a few coins, town's 35,000 residents, he says, perhaps 100 Israeli shekels, $30. are unemployed. "Day laborers "Usually," he claims, "I would can't get to Israel, and even local have sold 3,000 shekels' worth of factories are having to close be- produce by this time." cause their raw materials are not He hauls out a box of bruised being cleared from Israeli ports." apples and pears, starting to rot. "I take these home for the fam- ily," he says. The store is well stocked, much of it imported from Israel. It is not that there is no food in town. People just don't have the money to buy more than the basics: tomatoes, onions, — Hanna Nasser potatoes. One month after two Pales- tinian suicide bombers killed 14 Khalid Bandak, manager of Israeli civilians in a Jerusalem the 50-room Grand Hotel, hosts market, Bethlehem is the only not a single guest. Three groups West Bank town still cut off from of Christian pilgrims, from Eu- both Israel and its neighboring rope and Asia, have cancelled at Arab communities. David Bar-I1- the last minute. A busload of 32 lan, an Israeli government Koreans was turned back at an spokesman, explains: "We have Israeli checkpoint on the road reports from our security services from Jerusalem, five miles to the that possible terrorist operations north. are being planned by individuals "We have had to lay off 12 in Bethlehem. As long as those workers, most of our staff," Ban- reports remain valid, the closure dak reports. "We've lost at least on Bethlehem will continue." $45,000. Under Israeli occupa- The biblical city of David and tion, at least, we had free move- Ruth, Jesus and Mary, which has ment." been under Palestinian self-rule Just as people are not starving "The people are very close to losing hope."