A Palestine Liberation Organization leader said to be responsible for a 1970 attack on an EI AI plane at Munich in which one person died and nine were wounded, held a meeting here last week with former Chancellor Willy Brandt, who is presently chairman of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD), Egon Bahr, SPD organizing secretary, and Hans-Juergen Wischnewski, Under-Secretary of State, according to the German daily, “Welt.”
The PLO guest was Isam A. Sartawi, described as PLO “Special Ambassador.” This is the second time in recent months that PLO representatives have been received in Bonn despite official assurances that Bonn does not recognize the organization and will not do so until it renounces its aims of destroying Israel. According to an informed source the Israeli Embassy here is “trying to find out more details.
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