The World - News from March 5, 1989
The Bush Administration is reviewing visa requests by two officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a West Bank Palestinian to attend a U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian conference in New York next weekend, the State Department said. A visa request for a fourth person, Bassam abu Sharif, a PLO spokesman, was apparently dropped after U.S. officials told the PLO it would be impossible. Dennis Harter, a State Department spokesman, did not identify the three visa applicants by name, but he referred to a Washington Post report that said they are posing a dilemma for the Administration over how to deal with the PLO.
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