President Bush signed a six-month waiver allowing the PLO to keep its U.S. offices open and use its funds in U.S. banks. “I hereby determine and certify that it is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive” the provisions of the 1987 Anti-Terrorism Act, said the memorandum sent Wednesday to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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