Word: hijacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...education system is beseiged on the onehand by the South African government on the otherhand by various political parties, especiallyBlack ones," says Moulder, commenting on the SouthAfrican situation. He adds that "all of them wantto hijack the education system for their ownpurposes...
Just where the hijack fallout left the Middle East peace process was harder to discern. After all the grief and travail of the previous two weeks, the U.S. might feel like excluding the P.L.O. from the peace process. Israel strongly supports such a stance. For very different reasons, Syria's Hafez Assad and, for the moment, Jordan's King Hussein are content to use this opportunity to hammer Arafat...
From the beginning, Israeli officials insisted that Arafat not only had been aware of the hijack plot before it took place, but had been involved in the planning. Well before the EgyptAir interception took place, some diplomats and intelligence analysts had reached the conclusion that the Achille Lauro hijacking was in fact a bungled terrorist attempt to launch an attack on the Israeli harbor of Ashdod, using the cruise liner merely as transport. They also believed that while Arafat was aware of the plan to attack Ashdod, neither he nor P.L.F. Leader Abul Abbas knew about the liner hijacking...
That theory received indirect support on the day of the EgyptAir interception. A P.L.F. statement delivered in Cyprus accepted responsibility for the hijacking, apologized, and admitted that Ashdod was the original terrorist target. Said the statement: "The aim of the operation was not to hijack the ship or its passengers or any civilian of any nationality...
Bizarre and illogical even by terrorist standards, the hijack drama suddenly came into focus in Washington on Monday evening. About four hours earlier, the Palestinian terrorists had announced their piracy over ship-to- shore radio. By 6 p.m. Monday, a State Department task force had convened in a windowless suite of seventh-floor offices at Foggy Bottom. Information was scanty, even for President Reagan and National Security Adviser Robert ("Bud") McFarlane, who consulted twice on Monday night. Ironically, Secretary of State Shultz was aboard a ship himself: on a Potomac River barge where he was entertaining Singapore's visiting Prime...