Word: messina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Near dawn on Jan. 30, explosions rocked the Rodriguez Shipyards at Messina, Sicily. When the smoke cleared, two Palestinian-owned hydrofoil ferries were at the bottom of the harbor. Because the operator of the hydrofoils is known to be a supporter of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, police at first theorized that the sabotage was the work of an anti-Arafat group. No such luck. Israeli undercover agents made it known last week that they were responsible for the blasts...
Israel, it seems, was convinced that the hydrofoils, each with a capacity of 150 passengers, had been sent to Messina to be fitted with guns and armor plating so they could be used to ferry Fatah guerrillas into the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, from which they were driven by Israeli troops in 1982. The plan, say the Israelis, was for Fatah fighters to make a dash for the Lebanese coast from Cyprus on the high-speed hydrofoils under cover of night. And how did the Israeli spooks who foiled the plan smuggle bombs into Italy? "You just come...
Agrees North House Committee Chairman James A. Messina '86, who works with a $7,500 budget, "We can't take big risks. We have to be sure people are going to come to anything we organize, and it can't be that big. If we had a party on the Quad and it rained, we could lose everything we have...
...Eliot spent $1,000 just on champagne for the fete. That was one half what our spring event cost," says NoHo's Messina. Eliot is blessed by the fact that house Master Alan E. Heimert '49 pays for the alcohol at their parties, freeing up house committee funds to go to other events...
...House; Paula M. McDonough '86, Cabot House; Stuart A. Raphael '86, Currier House; Steven A. Colarossi '86, Dudley House; Sumy Ahn '86, Dunster House; Jennifer C. Keeler '86, Eliot House; Angela Ferry '86, Kirkland House; Julie N. Mack '86, Lowell House; Cynthia A. Schaffer '86, Mather House; James A. Messina '86, North House; Philip L. Prince '86, Quincy House; and Ellen Fern '86, Winthrop House...