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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.