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...even as the President basked in domestic approval, shock waves from the Achille Lauro incident rippled through a world once again shown to be vulnerable, in messy and unpredictable ways, to the instability that terrorism seeks to sow. In Italy, the coalition government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, a staunch U.S. ally, suddenly collapsed in an imbroglio triggered by the EgyptAir interception. In Cairo, university students poured into the crowded streets, burning American flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while President Mubarak voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...Abbas' flight, at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Rabb had delivered a formal request to the Italian Justice Ministry for Abbas' provisional arrest on charges of complicity in hijacking and murder. According to the Italians, the evidence offered by the U.S. to support that request was inadequate. The formal reason Craxi later gave for denying the request was that the EgyptAir Boeing 737 in which Abbas had ridden along with the hijackers was Egyptian government territory. In addition he noted that Abbas carried an Iraqi diplomatic passport, which allegedly gave him diplomatic immunity...
...Rome, Italian Prime Minister Craxi reacted to news that the hijacking had ended by exclaiming, "Thanks be to God, it's over!" Only ten minutes later, in a telephone call to the captain of the Achille Lauro, did Craxi learn that an American hostage had been killed. His government responded by declaring that it would seek extradition of the hijackers for prosecution in Italy...
White House aides were ecstatic. Reagan called Prime Minister Craxi to thank him for his cooperation in agreeing to prosecute the Palestinians, and to reaffirm that the U.S. very much wanted to prosecute them too. When Admiral John Poindexter, the Deputy National Security Adviser, entered the regular 9:30 NSC briefing for the President the next morning, Reagan rose to attention and snapped his right hand to his forehead. Said the Commander in Chief: "I salute the Navy...
That belief was shared by at least one West European leader, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who declared in an interview with TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave, "This act of Israel's was either a tragic error or a deliberate maneuver to strike at the evolution of the (peace process)." Craxi said that the Israelis themselves had told him that Arafat was risking his life by talking peace. Thus, the Prime Minister continued, "the Israelis could not have failed to calculate that this action would liquidate the Jordanian- Palestinian peace initiative." He said he hoped the P.L.O. would not return...