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...took steps to resurrect his five-party coalition. In Egypt, where students had taken to the streets, burning American flags and chanting provocative anti-U.S. slogans, calm was restored. But even as the bruised countries sought to forgive, though perhaps not forget, new details of the Achille Lauro affair emerged to fan the flames of recrimination...
...provisional arrest of Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan and had allowed the man suspected by U.S. officials of masterminding the Achille Lauro hijacking to leave Italy. He had not, he assured the President, softened his stance on terrorism. Reagan, for his part, recounted Washington's version of the affair and said that he understood the reasons for Craxi's actions...
...ship from protesting French nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa. The incident had badly shaken the administration of Socialist President François Mitterrand and forced the abrupt departures of two senior government officials. Last week's hearing was expected to reveal new details in the convoluted affair...
...deal had been struck between Paris and Wellington to suppress evidence gathered in the police investigation into the bombing. Greenpeace Chairman David McTaggart denounced the hearing as a "very low level" of justice. Said the conservative French daily Le Quotidien de Paris: "After smothering the repercussions of the Greenpeace affair, the Socialists are today benefiting from New Zealand justice...
...French and New Zealand governments. Said he: "Allow me to be discreet." That prompted Lange to snap, "It's so discreet that no one in Wellington knows about them." To be sure, questions remained, such as precisely who ordered the action and who carried it out, but the Greenpeace affair seemed to be finally sputtering...