Pope Paul granted a private audience yesterday to a representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Gibreel Shukri, PLO member and his wife. The PLO delegate was in Rome for the world conference on food. A spokesman for the Vatican declared that the audience had no political implications and did not constitute recognition of the PLO by the Vatican. However, this is believed to be the first private Papal audience granted to a PLO member,
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