The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has asked the State Department and the Department of Justice to impose further restrictions on the movements and activities of Palestine Liberation Organization representatives attending the current session of the United Nations General Assembly. The request, addressed to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Attorney General William Saxbe, calls on them to “bar PLO leaders from activity of any kind outside the physical limits of the UN headquarters” and to “forbid PLO participation in demonstrations, forums, public meetings, radio and television appearances off the UN premises.”
These restrictions would go beyond the limitations imposed by the C-2 visas which the State Department has issued the PLO delegates that restricts their travel to a radius of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan. Lawrence Peirez, acting attorney for the ADL, said the new request was a move to implement an Oct. 31 U.S. Federal court opinion “that serious consideration be given to the imposition of more restrictive limitations on the movements of the PLO representatives.”
Peirez noted that the State Department had reversed its intention to grant unlimited visitors visas to the PLO members as a result of the ADL’s application Oct. 31 to Federal court. Eastern District, New York for an order directing the State, Justice and Treasury Departments to either bar the PLO leaders from entry to the U.S. or restrict their freedom of movement to the narrow purposes of their visit.
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