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During the fall of last year Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York was admonished for rudeness because he directed his aides to insist that Yasir Arafat remove himself from an event put on by the City of New York at the Lincoln Center, to which, Mayor Giuliani insists, Arafat was not invited. The most recently
updated and rewritten version of the Amy Vanderbilt Etiquette Book does not address the problem of gate crashing. "I didn't address it," said Nancy Tuckerman, co-author of the new edition of the Etiquette Book," because it’s so appallingly rude, I can't imagine anyone doing it." Assuming, for the sake of discussion, that Yasir Arafat had not been invited to the event at Lincoln Center, was Mayor Giuliani justified in insisting that he leave? If so, why? If not, Why not?