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Meanwhile the governments involved agreed to let Cairo take the lead in talking with the hijackers. The decision seemed logical since Mubarak enjoyed close relations with the P.L.O., and the Achille Lauro was steaming back toward Egypt. But from the start, the U.S., Italy and Egypt were not thinking alike about the crisis. All agreed, however, that there were three key issues: 1) safety of the hostages, 2) concessions to the hijackers, and 3) future punishment for the terrorists...
...Mubarak questioned whether Klinghoffer had been killed at all. Said he: "Maybe the man is in hiding or did not board the ship at all." By then, U.S. patience was beginning to wear thin. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these people and prosecute them." Privately, U.S. officials could hardly restrain themselves. Said an intelligence analyst: "They just lied to us, from top to bottom. They did everything they could in order to mislead us about the location and fate of the terrorists." But thanks to effective intelligence...
...advisers" proposed the idea "on the road," meaning on the way to Chicago. At about 11:50 a.m., as a presidential motorcade wended its way to a Sara Lee bakery in Deerfield, Ill., McFarlane informed a White House staffer that the Egyptian plane bearing the hijackers would leave Cairo at about 4 p.m. EDT. After Reagan held forth on tax reform at the bakery, McFarlane informed the President at about midday that it might be possible to intercept the jetliner. In a private room inside the bakery, Reagan agreed in principle to the move and provided "one or two elements...
...returned to Washington aboard Air Force One. At about 4 p.m., McFarlane abruptly left a staff discussion of the upcoming Geneva summit and entered Reagan's private cabin. It was then that the President said, "Go ahead, and let's execute." About 15 minutes later, the EgyptAir plane left Cairo...
Next morning, when 666 passengers left the ship for a day of sight-seeing and shopping in Cairo, Marilyn and her husband Leon, 69, stayed aboard. A retired appliance manufacturer, Leon had been confined to a wheelchair after suffering two strokes during the past three years. Another member of the group, Mildred Hodes, of Springfield, N.J., had planned to join her husband Frank on the Cairo trip, but at the last moment she changed her mind. That decision very nearly cost Mildred Hodes her life...