Bush extends PLO office allowance

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President Bush extended for six months his waiver of laws banning a PLO presence in Washington. “I hereby determine that it is in the national security interest of the United States to waive that sanction,” Bush said last Friday in a memorandum to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The laws banning Palestine Liberation Organization representation date to the 1990s; presidents have waived them periodically since the Oslo agreement in 1993.

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