Word: airintercept
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...angry recriminations among allies that held the world's attention. Initially, it had been mostly Egypt that felt aggrieved, but the U.S. and Italy were soon at sharp odds when Reagan learned on Saturday, Oct. 12, that he had been denied part of his goal in the airintercept operation. By that time, the four P.L.F. hijackers aboard the Boeing 737 at the Sigonella air base in Sicily had been taken into Italian custody and charged with murder, kidnaping and hijacking. But the mysterious Abul Abbas had literally flown the coop, aboard a Yugoslav JAT jet bound from Rome to Dubrovnik...
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