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...even as the President basked in domestic approval, shock waves from the Achille Lauro incident rippled through a world once again shown to be vulnerable, in messy and unpredictable ways, to the instability that terrorism seeks to sow. In Italy, the coalition government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, a staunch U.S. ally, suddenly collapsed in an imbroglio triggered by the EgyptAir interception. In Cairo, university students poured into the crowded streets, burning American flags and chanting anti-U.S. slogans, while President Mubarak voiced his own sense of pain and humiliation over the incident. As Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
...fallout from the Achille Lauro proved one thing: that terrorism, horrifying in its immediate impact, can also have dangerous side effects that are as hard to control as they are to foresee. Certainly no one would have forecast the chain of events triggered by the four scruffy young members of a splinter of the Palestine Liberation Front who were being interrogated last week in a maximum-security prison in Spoleto about their role in the Achille Lauro hijacking. Nor could Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the man U.S. authorities were pursuing with grim determination from Italy to Yugoslavia to the murkier...
...however, WAFA, the Palestinian press service based in Tunis, reported that P.L.O. Chairman Arafat had sent Craxi a message warning him against turning Abbas over to the U.S. If the Italians did so, Arafat reportedly said, "uncontrollable reactions could result, as happened in the affair of the Achille Lauro."An irate Rabb later declared that he was "not happy with what happened today...
...human terms, the most poignant new development came on Monday, when the body of Leon Klinghoffer washed ashore near the Syrian port of Tartus. The Achille Lauro was off the Syrian coast when the retired Manhattan appliance manufacturer, who was partly paralyzed by two strokes and confined to a wheelchair, had been killed and his body thrown overboard. Abbas and P.L.O. Chairman Arafat, among others, had publicly questioned whether Klinghoffer had actually been shot. The Syrian government of President Hafez Assad, a foe of Arafat's, quickly reported the discovery of the corpse, and an FBI agent flew to Damascus...
Italian antiterrorist forces were meanwhile assembling the case for the prosecution of the cruise-liner terrorists and widening the net of guilt. Five days prior to the cruise hijacking, police in Genoa, the home port of the Achille Lauro, had picked up a young Palestinian, Khalif Zainab, for possessing both Iraqi and Moroccan passports. In due course, he too was charged with murder, multiple kidnaping and lesser weapons charges along with the original four terrorist detainees. (The quartet: Abdel Atif Ibrahim, 19, Hallah Abdullah Hassan, 19, Hammad Ali Abdullah, 23, Majed Youssef Molky...