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UNITED NATIONS--Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said the United States is violating its U.N. treaty by preventing PLO chief Yasser Arafat from speaking to the General Assembly...
...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...
Peering out at the assembled Palestinians in the domed auditorium of the Club des Pins convention center, Yasser Arafat donned a pair of spectacles and began reading softly from the document he held in his hands. Then the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman's voice suddenly rose in a crescendo and his right arm chopped the air. "In the name of God, and in the name of the Palestinian Arab people," Arafat shouted into the microphone, "the Palestine National Council announces the establishment of the state of Palestine, with holy Jerusalem as its capital...
Behind the scenes of the council sessions, which began a special session Saturday, PLO chief Yasser Arafat rallied members to his new policy...
...Look, planes!" Fortunately for the TIME staffer accompanying Yasser Arafat on his flight across the Middle East last week, they were not Israeli aircraft, which Arafat charges have recently been trying to ambush him. They were Turkish jet fighters, 16 of them, and they rose in waves to provide a protective escort as Arafat's plane flew over the Iraqi border and into Turkey. The U.S.-made F-16s hugged Arafat's wing tips, and their pilots saluted the Palestinian leader. "They were so close, I could see their eyes," recalls Murray Gart, the TIME senior correspondent on board Arafat...