Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent history of international terrorism. Once again Arab extremists had struck at a vulnerable civilian target. A few hours after it left Alexandria on a pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean, an Italian liner, the Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...
...given situation, Eagleburger warns, the U.S. is liable to find itself temporarily helpless. But that should never, he says, lead the country or its leadership to a failure of nerve in attempting to strike back at gunmen like the Achille Lauro hijackers. Says he: "The important thing is that we not be deterred from punishing people like these because of a fear that there will be more terrorist attacks." Last week the Reagan Administration certainly communicated to the world that it would not be deterred. Few doubted White House Spokesman Speakes when he declared after the EgyptAir interception that...
...with the P.L.O. Arafat's attempt to portray himself as a peacemaker reached a peak when the Achille Lauro hijackers surrendered, seemingly as a result of pressure from P.L.O. mediators. Later, when the reports of Leon Klinghoffer's murder were confirmed, Arafat had promised that if the gunmen were turned over to the P.L.O., the organization would bring them to justice...
...since 1976, when its commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue a planeload of passengers being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen, had Israel launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried...
...message was monitored last week on a radio frequency normally used by pilots. It included a list of demands and a recording of what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...