Two Jewish activists said they are mounting a nationwide campaign to have Palestine Liberation Organization offices removed from the United States.
Peter Goldman, director of Americans for a Safe Israel, and Rabbi Avraham Weiss, coordinator of Americans Against Terrorism, said they were gathering one million signatures on a petition to be presented to President Reagan, demanding that the PLO be ousted from the U.S.
Weiss told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the campaign will include mass demonstrations and planned arrests outside the PLO office in New York, similar to the planned arrests outside the Soviet Embassy in Washington by rabbis and others protesting the treatment of Jews in the USSR.
The PLO office in New York serves the PLO delegation to the United Nations where it has observer status. According to Weiss, there is a PLO office in Washington, D.C. There is a Palestine Information Center in Washington which Weiss claims is a PLO office.
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