U.S. Upheld on Padlocking of PLO Office
A U.S. Court of Appeals today upheld the Reagan Administration’s order last year closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s information office in Washington.
The State Department found that the office acted as the PLO’s foreign mission and ordered it shut because of what it said was involvement in terrorism by individuals and groups associated with the PLO.
The case involved a different law than the one used by the Administration in seeking to shut the PLO’s observer mission to the United Nations.
A federal judge in New York ruled in June that the Administration does not have the legal authority to force the closing of the mission.
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