Sen. John Sparkman (D.Ala.), the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday he favors the creation of a state on the West Bank for displaced Palestinians, but not one run by the Palestine Liberation Organization. “I have felt that it ought to be possible to work out an agreement among those nations affected to permit the displaced Palestinians–and I’m not talking about the PLO revolutionaries, but the displaced Palestinians–to organize themselves into an orderly society,” Sparkman said in an interview on CBS Radio’s “Capitol Cloakroom” program.
Sparkman said since both Israel and Jordan claim the West Bank, the Palestinian state “would require negotiation involving both those countries,” The veteran Alabama Senator replaced Sen. J. William Fulbright as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee after Fulbright failed to win reelection to the Senate.
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