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...Washington, once the intelligence information had been assessed, there was never any serious debate about what the U.S. should do. "We'd been a pretty determined bunch ever since the Achille Lauro," said one senior Reagan official. "The only major point of discussion was targeting." Reagan insisted that the targets be chosen with a view toward holding down casualties among Libyan civilians. That damage nonetheless occurred in downtown Tripoli might indicate that a so-called surgical air strike is much easier to plan than to achieve...
...Navy made quick work of Gaddafi's air force over the Gulf of Sidra, and late last month the U.S. bloodied those waters again. There were also the 1983 invasion of Grenada and last year's interception of an Egyptian airliner with the Achille Lauro hijackers aboard...
...Arab world, which had shunned the country after Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. But he has been less successful at home. Egypt's already shaky economy continues to suffer setbacks. Even before hotels were attacked last week, the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro last October and other terrorist incidents in the region had caused a severe drop in tourism, which brought an estimated $700 million into Egypt in the last fiscal year...
...Italians are incensed about the tariffs," Busetti says. "For them, it is such an emotional product, especially in the wake of recent strains. The increase was on the front pages of all Italian newspapers the day after there were pictures of Craxi and Reagan mending fences following the Achille Lauro affair...
...Mubarak, the latest hijacking came at an awkward time. Only seven weeks earlier, the President's response to the terrorist seizure of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro had been criticized as indecisive, even duplicitous, and had strained Egypt's relations with the U.S. After the hijacking crisis in Malta, Mubarak is considered less likely than ever to risk the unpopular economic reforms that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund have been urging upon him for the past year. The IMF wants Egypt to reduce its projected budget deficit of $1.3 billion for this year by drastically cutting subsidies...