The World - News from April 27, 1988

The International Court of Justice at The Hague unanimously ruled that the United States must go to arbitration to end a dispute with the United Nations over the Palestine Liberation Organization’s U.N. Mission. The opinion supported the United Nations, which appealed to the court after the U.S. Congress last December passed an anti-terrorism law providing for the closure of the PLO observer mission set up in New York in 1974. The United Nations views the law as a violation of its 1947 headquarters agreement with the United States, which assures access to the United Nations to anyone involved with the world body.