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...girl whose brains were dashed against a rock. Abbas has a considerable sense of selfimportance: during his days as a guerrilla commander in the P.L.O. state-within-a-state in southern Lebanon, he rode around Beirut in a Mercedes with as many as eight bodyguards. Well before the Achille Lauro hijacking, he had a penchant for bizarre and ineffective operations. In 1981 he tried to infiltrate raiders across the Lebanese border into Israel by hot-air balloon and hang glider; they were killed or captured...
...that only an independent Palestinian state was acceptable. Arafat's loyalists, for their part, were openly contemptuous of Abbas. Said one, after listening to Abbas harangue a crowd about the necessity of liberating Palestine by force: "He is nothing but hot air." Now, in the wake of the Achille Lauro, the P.L.O. looks weaker and more out of favor than ever. Even so, it cannot be written off. Despite the feuds and even internecine bloodshed, Arafat year after year manages somehow to keep it in existence and even retain some power...
...Achille Lauro hijacking. We learned from the captain that nobody was killed and nobody was injured, so we tried to find a way out of this trouble. We remembered the hijacking of the TWA jet, when the U.S. asked the Syrians to serve as mediators to free the people of the aircraft, and they made no claims on the hijackers. I hoped we could find an agreement like that...
...capture of the Achille Lauro terrorists. We had exact, accurate and timely intelligence. We knew where to go and where to act. That is the outcome of the past five years, during which we have had more resources and more experience. Not less important, we have very good relationships with the rest of the Government. The teamwork, the relationships within the intelligence community, with the National Security Council and the White House, are very good. We were all working round the clock, and it paid...
...Ronald Reagan, it was a time to savor a triumph, not indulge in nagging second thoughts. At an intimate Georgetown dinner party for the President, guests took turns heartily congratulating him for the bold midair interception of the four Palestinian hijackers of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. In Boise, admiring supporters erupted in cheers as Reagan declared he was "most proud" of the U.S. Navy F-14 pilots who were able to pinpoint their EgyptAir Boeing 737 target in the Mediterranean darkness and, as he put it puckishly, "persuade" it to land in Italy. His declaration that "there...