2,500 Protest Meeting of Mitterrand, Arafat
From Reuters
NICE, France —
About 2,500 French Jews protested on the Riviera late Monday against President Francois Mitterrand’s decision to meet PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Paris next week.
Nice Mayor Jacques Medecin joined Jewish organizations in condemning the May 2 meeting with the chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
“There should be no pacts with the enemies of Israel, and the head of the PLO terrorists is the worst of all,” Medecin said.
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