The Palestine Liberation Organization is to open an office in East Berlin, according to Saturday’s issue of “Neues Deutschland,” the official East German Communist Party newspaper. An agreement has been signed to this effect by Gerhard Gruenenberg, Communist Party politburo member, and Yassir Arafat, leader of the PLC. No date has been announced for the opening. A statement said the PLO’s job will be “to promote further mutual understanding between the people of the German Democratic Republic and the Arab Palestinian people.” The negotiations were described by “Neues Deutschland” as “cordial and friendly.”
The construction of the Egyptian oil pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and Alexandria by European, including German, firms, is now in doubt. It was revealed Saturday in Bonn. The Economics Ministry hinted that, even though an agreement had been concluded in July 1972, there was the strong possibility that U.S. firms would get the contract because of a lower bid. The German firm of Mannesmann was to have supplied the project with pipes and was to have built one of the terminals.
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