Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990189224

Mr. President. today. Senator FRANK R. LAUTENBERG and I are circulating a letter requesting that the Secretary of State deny Yasser Arafat a visa to enter the United States. The Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization may be seeking this visa to attend and address the Security Council of the United Nations. Arafat is widely recognized as a kingpin of world terror. we cannot and we must not again open our doors to him. On April 8. 1986. Attorney General Edwin Meese declared that: "Various elements of the PLO are in the thick of world terrorism and the leader of the PLO.
Keywords matched
visa

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Criminal

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEREMIAH DENTON
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
1986-05-21
Speech ID
990189224
Paragraph
#0
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