The World - News from April 28, 1989

French President Francois Mitterrand moved to pacify the powerful French Jewish community, bitterly opposed to his meeting next week with Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Jewish leader Theo Klein made public the text of a message from Mitterrand in which the president said: “To listen is not to approve.” Mitterrand added, “France has not forgotten the victims of the Holocaust or of blind terrorism.” Klein said that Mitterrand’s words are “a positive gesture which we had been awaiting with some impatience.”