Word: plo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again, off-again debate between a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative and a Harvard law professor was cancelled for good this week because the diplomat refused to debate, via satellite, on a local television show, organizers said...
...debate between the PLO's permanent observer to the United Nations, Zhudi Labib Terzi, and Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, had been scheduled for last Monday. But the debate was cancelled when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston upheld a State Department decision not to permit Terzi to travel to Cambridge...
State Department officials have argued that his talk would harm U.S. foreign policy by giving the appearance that the U.S. does not object to the PLO policies...
Terzi, in a late Monday afternoon telephoneconversation with Forum President James W.Peck-Gray, said he would no longer agree to thetelevised form of debate. But earlier that day,PLO officials had agreed to let Terzi appear viasatellite, Peck-Gray said...
...what was described as an hour-longdiscussion between the forum president and Terzi,the PLO official said he "preferred to be in thesame room--in the debate he wanted to address hisaudience directly," Peck--Gray said...