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only the PLO's Washington
office was approved by the
House-Senate conference
committee considering the
massive State Department
authorization bill. What this
means is that barring some
unexpected problem when the
measure goes before the full
House and Senate, the anti-
PLO amendment will become
law.
But it is still unclear what
the impact of this new legisla-
tion will be. The measure
calls for the Attorney General
to take the necessary legal
steps to shut down the office.
Although this provision will
have the force of law, there
are questions about whether
the Administration — which
has opposed congressional ef-
forts to shut down the PLO of-
fices — will act in a timely
fashion.
It is even less clear whether
Congress would be willing to
challenge an Administration
stall on the issue.
There is also growing pres-
sure against the measure
from groups like the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union,
despite the recent District
Court decision throwing out
an effort by civil liberties
groups to overturn the State
Department's earlier action.
The ACLU argues that the
amendment, if accepted,
would limit the right of
Americans who may support
the PLO's political agenda
without supporting its ter-
rorist activities.
A sidelight to the PLO issue
came out during the con-
ference committee debate
when it was revealed that
Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC); one
of the measure's key pro-
moters, spoke out against a
similar measure in 1977
aimed at the information of-
fices of the whites-only
government in Rhodesia.
"There's a lot of irony in this,"
said Hope Nakamura, staff
counsel for the ACLU's Na-
tional Security Project. "It's
really interesting that Sen.
Helms was making all the
same arguments then that
we're making now about the
right of Americans to speak
out about the issues that con-
cern them."
Other critics of the measure
point to the possibility that
attacking the PLO informa-
tion offices will have no effect
on the group's terrorist ac-
tivities — but may cause new
problems for the United
States and Israel. "I think it
will backfire against the U.S.
and, unfortunately, against
Israel," said Rep. Barney
Frank (D-Mass), who tried un-
successfully to defeat the
anti-PLO bill during the re-
cent conference committee
meetings. "It would be a
great mistake to allow the
PLO, which is a very unat-
tractive terrorist organiza-
tion, to be able to argue that
we are violating interna-
tional law by closing offices
associated with their U.N.
observer mission:'
Frank, who is a strong sup-
porter of ISrael, also argued
that the PLO closing measure
might harm the potential of
the United States to serve as
a broker for peace in the Mid-
dle East.
Critics also point to the
curious legislative history of
the amendment, and the fact
that it advanced without a
rollcall vote until the recent
conference committee action.
"There weren't hearings at
any stage of the process," said
one staffer involved with the
bill. "In my own view, there
was a lot of effort expended to
make sure that there weren't
recorded votes. People felt
very uneasy about this from
the very beginning."
Despite this uneasiness, the
amendment is almost certain
to become law.
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