The World - News from Jan. 20, 1989
The State Department disclosed that Robert H. Pelletreau Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, held another meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization, but no details of the “informal contact” in Tunis were released. The meeting in Tunis was Pelletreau’s second with PLO officials since last month, when Washington reversed a 13-year ban on public contacts with the PLO. Meanwhile, a PLO spokesman denied that Chairman Yasser Arafat threatened to kill Palestinians who call for a halt to the uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories. The State Department has said it has a tape recording of Arafat making the threat in a speech.
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