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Indeed, after the Achille Lauro hijacking, Abbas is widely regarded within the P.L.O. as a bungler who has gravely damaged the organization. Whether or not the U.S. and its allies ever manage to catch him and bring him to trial, his future is as questionable as his present whereabouts. At week's end, as the P.L.O. executive committee was about to convene in Baghdad, some of Arafat's adherents were talking of expelling Abbas from that body...
...about that time, the passengers who had spent the day in Cairo arrived in Port Said. There would be a delay, they were told, because of heavy traffic in the port. Not until midnight did an Italian consular official advise them that the Achille Lauro had been hijacked. Buses then took them back to Cairo, where they arrived after 3 a.m. For them, the waiting had just begun. In the lobby of the Concorde Hotel, Frank Hodes remarked the next day, "We are sitting here in total silence. We are getting no information at all." Charlotte Spiegel of New York...
...situation reached crisis point early Tuesday afternoon as the gunmen awaited permission from Syrian authorities for the Achille Lauro to dock at Tartus. The hijackers had asked by radio to be put in touch with the Italian and American ambassadors in Damascus, hoping to negotiate the release of their 50 comrades in Israel. A Lebanese radio station monitored the chilling sequence of threats by one of the gunmen. At 12:30 p.m. Tuesday: "Any delay in the arrival of the ambassadors will be damaging." At 12:32 p.m.: "There is no time to lose, and the first ultimatum...
...other surviving members of the "beach people" were taken to Cairo to prepare for the long, sad flight home, with a detour to Italy, where she helped pick the four hijackers out of a lineup. On Saturday, after waiting two days for the Egyptian government to permit the Achille Lauro to leave Port Said, the ship's owners announced that the remainder of the eleven-day cruise had been canceled...
...swift and sure midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by four Navy fighters provided the armed forces with a much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look...