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Then the hostage drama was suddenly, even suspiciously, over. Despite the strongest U.S. pleas to a close ally, it seemed that the killers were about to escape scot-free. All the anger and revulsion that Americans felt at that prospect were summed up by U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Nicholas Veliotes, who demanded that the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak "prosecute the sons of bitches...
...Ambassador Veliotes announced from the Achille Lauro that Klinghoffer had been murdered. Two hours later, White House Spokesman Speakes declared that the U.S. was "saddened and outraged by the brutal killing of an innocent American," and urged Egypt "in the strongest terms" to bring the perpetrators to book...
...over, they looked all through the ship for him, though they expected the worst. Some passengers had noted that the trousers and shoes of one of the hijackers had been covered with blood. And besides, as one recalled, "We had heard gunshots and a splash." Giovanni Migliuolo, the Italian Ambassador to Egypt, later chillingly reconstructed the event: "The hijackers pushed (Klinghoffer) in his chair and dragged him to the side of the ship, where, in cold blood, they fired a shot to the forehead. Then they dumped the body into the sea, together with the wheelchair...
...Parisian suburb for an hour-long tour of a highly roboticized Peugeot auto factory. The Soviet leader tried out the latest model sedan, then donned protective goggles to inspect the plant and chat with workers about wages and factory conditions. So determinedly upbeat was the visit that Soviet Ambassador to France Yuli Vorontsov jokingly told a Peugeot executive, "You're getting so much free publicity out of this, you really ought to give...
Egypt suspended negotiations with Israel over the status of Taba, the sliver of beachfront in the Sinai that is claimed by both countries. In Tunis, Bourguiba called in U.S. Ambassador Peter Sebastian and told him of his "profound regret and great astonishment" at the Administration's response. Summing up the reaction by moderate Arabs, one senior Western ^ diplomat in Cairo declared, "The raid is going to leave scars, a lot more than were caused by the attack on the Iraqi reactor...