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...power of veto: the P.L.O. is widely thought to have the ability to upset any Middle East peace settlement by terror attacks. But also someone has to speak for the Palestinians, and for all the P.L.O.'s divisions, no realistic substitute has yet been found. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The equation has not been changed. You cannot say, 'These bozos have no place.' No one in the West Bank or in Gaza or anywhere else is saying, 'Let's finish with the P.L.O.' " So the P.L.O. lurches and stumbles...
Last year, when a wave of anti-apartheid activism was at its crest, the Conservative Club invited South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein to a private reception. The Lowell House event precipitated a major demonstration that last week resulted in disciplinary action against 10 students...
Surprisingly, the U.S. ploy worked. When the Achille Lauro tried to enter Syrian waters near Tartus, the Syrians turned it away. Cyprus also refused to allow the ship into port. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "Everyone had been sensitized. It wasn't so much a matter of U.S. pressure as the fact that no one wanted these pirates on their hands." The Achille Lauro had little choice but to turn back toward Egypt's Port Said...
...punishment. The U.S., frustrated that terrorists have so easily escaped retribution in the past, put great emphasis on the issue. The Italians were less insistent, perhaps because they had more lives and property at stake. For the Egyptians, the punishment issue posed a difficult dilemma. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "We were fighting Egypt...
...increased as the gunmen became more desperate. Neither crew nor passengers seem to have considered trying to overwhelm the terrorists; they were too well armed and too erratic, and besides, very few people realized that there were only four gunmen on board. "From the way they were behaving," a diplomat who visited the ship later observed, "it seemed more likely that there were 20 hijackers rather than four...