The U.S. government gave no indication today what course it will pursue over the establishment in East Berlin of a Palestine Liberation Organization office.
“We are aware of the situation” and “we are following the matter very closely,” the State Department spokesman Paul Hare said in response to questions from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He had no immediate reply to whether the U.S. is consulting with the Soviet, French and British governments over the situation. The Big Four, in signing the Berlin Pact, had agreed on elimination of tension and “the prevention of complications.”
When a West German correspondent asked Hare why the U.S. is following the situation “closely,” Hare replied “because of our interest in that matter.” He did not elaborate.
Heinz Galinski, head of the West Berlin Jewish community, has personally appealed to Erich Honecker, the Communist Party head in East Germany, to reconsider providing the Arab terrorists with a base in East Berlin. “Every German government must bear moral and political responsibility to ward off attacks on those who suffered from the criminal actions of earlier German regimes,” Galinski said.”
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