The World - News from Sept. 10, 1989

Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, will fly to New York to call on the U.N. General Assembly to convene an international peace conference on the Middle East, a Saudi newspaper quoted him as saying. Last year, Washington denied Arafat a visa, prompting the world body to move to Geneva to hear the Palestinian leader. According to the Saudi newspaper report, Arafat appears confident that he will be allowed to enter the United States to address the United Nations later this month. A State Department spokesman said he had no knowledge of Arafat’s applying for a visa.