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New York (JTA) — The
1988 declaration of
statehood by the Palestine
Liberation Organization is
one of the main points of
contention in a civil suit fil-
ed here that calls on the PLO
to pay damages for the
brutal murder of an elderly
Jewish man by Palestinian
terrorists five-and-a-half
years ago.
Relatives of Leon Kl-
inghoffer, the 69-year-old
wheelchair-bound man shot
and thrown into the
Mediterranean during the
October 1985 hijacking of
the Achille Laura cruise
ship, are trying to sue the
PLO for an unspecified
amount of money.
But the PLO maintains it
cannot be sued, citing a 1976
U.S. law that makes
sovereign states immune
from such lawsuits. The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Se-
cond Circuit will have to
decide whether the PLO's 2-
year-old self-declared state
of "Palestine" is indeed a
sovereign nation.
A lower court already rul-
ed that the PLO should be
denied immunity, but the
PLO, represented by former
U.S. Attorney General
Ramsey Clark, has appeal-
ed.
In a friend-of-the-court
brief, the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith called
the PLO a terrorist organ-
ization and said such groups
do not deserve the legal pro-
tections offered to foreign
governments.
"The PLO does not have
the fundamental legal at-
tributes of a state, including
a defined territory, a func-
tioning government that
controls a territory, or a
permanent population," said
the ADL brief, which was
filed last week.
It said the PLO could not
claim immunity based on its
status at the United
Nations, because it has
observer status and is not
recognized as a member
state.
Steven Freeman, director
of the ADL's legal affairs
department, said the case
had wide-ranging implica-
tions for future prosecution
of the PLO or any organiza-
tion accused of terrorist ac-
tivities.
"It would be significant if
this established a precedent
that the PLO can be sued
here for violations of law in
which Americans are vic-
timized," said Mr. Freeman.
The Achille Laura was hi-
jacked while in Egyptian
waters en route from Alex-
andria to Port Said. Four Pa-
lestinian terrorists, who
panicked when their cache of
weapons was discovered,
changed their original plans
to disembark in Israel and
instead hijacked the ship.
After ordering the ship
toward Syria — where they
eventually were not allowed
to dock — one of the gunmen
shot Mr. Klinghoffer in the
head and then had the body
and wheelchair dumped into
the sea.
Mr. Klinghoffer's wife,
Marilyn, who was traveling
with him, was unharmed.
She died months later of
cancer.
The original operation was
reportedly organized by a
faction of the PLO, the
Palestine Liberation Front,
headed by Mohammed
(Abul) Abbas, at the time
aligned with Yassir Arafat.
The four hijackers, who
finally turned over the ship
at Port Said, in exchange for
safe passage, were being
taken to Tunisia aboard an
Egyptian plane when U.S.
fighter jets diverted the
plane to a base in Italy.
Attempts to have the four
extradited to the United
States failed, and they were
sentenced in 1986 by an
Italian court to what were
criticized by many as light
sentences. The hijacker
found guilty of murdering
Klinghoffer received 30
years, and others were
sentenced to terms ranging
from life to six months.
Israel Moves
Its Clocks
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel
went on summertime at
midnight March 23.
Clocks were advanced one
hour and will remain so for
160 days, until August 31.
The changeover will in-
crease the period of daylight
as days grow longer in the
northern hemisphere.
Israel's time zone is now
eight hours ahead of Eastern
Standard Time in the United
States.
It will be reduced to seven
hours when North America
goes on daylight-saving
time.
Israel is presently three
hours head of Greenwich
Mean Time, the universal
chronological measurement
which is Western Europe's
time zone.