— Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D. NY) announced yesterday that he will introduce an amendment to the State Department Authorization Bill for fiscal year 1982-83 prohibiting U.S. contributions to what he said were two Palestine Liberation Organization front organizations operating within the United Nations.
The two UN groups to which the Moynihan amendment would apply are the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Special Unit on Palestinian Rights. Moynihan introduced the same amendment two years ago when it was unanimously adopted by both houses of Congress. The U.S. reduced its contributions to the UN by $190,000 in fiscal 1980 and by $228,550 in fiscal 1981, amounts equal to 25 percent of the budgets of the two UN units.
Moynihan observed yesterday that “the (Reagan) Administration omitted this restriction from its new budget. I intend to restore it, for the Senate does not want the U.S. to subsidize PLO operations at the UN.”
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