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...Party, abruptly withdrew from the government with two other Republican ministers on Oct. 16, Craxi's government seemed doomed to collapse. Spadolini was angered by the Prime Minister's decision to release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy. For the pro-U.S. Defense Minister, the stand was a matter of principle...
...political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote of confidence this week, the partnership...
While Italian political life returned to normal, the Achille Lauro embarked on a new cruise with 570 tourists on board. It was not all smooth sailing. A bomb scare was taken so seriously that a nervous crew dumped a cargo of slot machines into the sea rather than risk the chance of hidden explosives among the crates. The ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground...
...barbless phrase, something like the boiler-plate invective ("capitalist roaders," "unreliable elements") for which Communist regimes have a dreary genius. Terrorism is a haunted house, theater in the shadows. It needs its ugly special effects. Terror depends, so to speak, upon absolute artistic control. But suddenly in the Achille Lauro case, the house lights came up, and Arafat found himself blinking uncomfortably at the audience. No wonder his rhetoric sounded lame...
Reagan brooded about it as he hurried through his morning briefing on the aftermath of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Although U.S. intelligence had pinpointed the terrorists in Egypt, and a scheme was being hatched to try and capture them if they fled, they were still out of reach...