U.S. Sticks to Its Ban on Arafat
WASHINGTON — The Reagan Administration today said its decision to deny a visa to Yasser Arafat is final but it will not try to block Arab attempts to shift a U.N. debate on Palestine to Geneva or another city so the PLO leader can attend.
Even so, State Department spokesman Charles E. Redman said, shifting the site of the debate is unnecessary inasmuch as there are other spokesmen for the Palestine Liberation Organization in New York who could speak on the subject apart from Chairman Arafat, who was barred by Secretary of State George P. Shultz on the grounds that he has been an “accessory” to acts of terrorism.
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