The U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would impose visa restrictions on Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders. The bill, a revised version of legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this year, also would seize U.S. financial assets of the Palestinian Authority president as well as restrict the travel of the PLO’s U.N. ambassador.
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