The Palestine Liberation Organization is preparing to move into a townhouse on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side which it bought for a reported $1 million in cash.
Zehdi Labib Terzi, the PLO’s observer at the United Nations, said he plans to hold an open house and make other overtures to calm the fears of neighbors of the new headquarters at 1-15 East 65th Street. Some neighbors have recalled the recent bomb attack on the Soviet Mission to the United Nations which is only a few blocks away. The new PLO headquarters is on the same street where former President Nixon has bought a townhouse and is scheduled to move in soon.
The PLO bought the East 65th Street site after failing to lease office space which it sought after owners of its first headquarters in a Park Avenue commercial building notified the PLO that the building was being razed. Terzi said the cost was being paid by Arab countries supporting the PLO, such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
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