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DATE: TUESDAY, June 12, 1990                   TAG: 9006120041
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BAGHDAD, IRAQ                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. CRITICIZES PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organization, in a bid to salvage its dialogue with the United States, on Monday condemned attacks on civilians. But it did not specifically denounce a guerrilla raid on an Israeli beach.

Washington criticized the PLO for failing to explicitly condemn the raid, implying that the statement failed to meet U.S. anti-terrorism conditions. However, the PLO news agency WAFA reported another U.S.-PLO meeting took place Monday in Tunisia.

The United States has threatened to cut off its 18-month-old dialogue with the PLO over its refusal to condemn the foiled May 30 attack by a PLO faction. PLO chief Yasser Arafat has disassociated the organization from the raid but has not personally condemned it.

State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said in Washington the United States was pleased with the disavowal of attacks on civilians, but expressed displeasure that it did not condemn the beach raid.

She said there was no question that the PLO knew what it should do to meet U.S. conditions.

by CNB