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UNITED NATIONS--Arab nations said yesterday the General Assembly session will move to Geneva so PLO chief Yasser Arafat can address it, unless the United States reverses itself within 48 hours and grants him a visa...
...Washington, the State Department said the U.S. decision to deny the visa was "firm and final." But it said it would not stand in the way of moving the debate on Palestinian issues which is scheduled to begin Thursday...
Perez de Cuellar, in a statement released through a spokesperson, said the decision to deny Arafat a visa to enter the country runs counter to the 1947 agreement under which the United States promises not to interfere in U.N. matters...
...secretary-general regrets the denial of the visa application of Mr. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, by the U.S. authorities," said spokesperson Francois Giuliani last night...
Until recently, the form of travel available to Soviet dissidents was one way. Now, though, it looks as if the Soviet Union's most prominent dissenter will be granted a visa for a trip to the U.S. that will not result in unwanted exile. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights efforts, announced last week that the Soviet government had tentatively agreed to let him visit the U.S. next month. The reason for the trip: a conference of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, an organization devoted to environmental...