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Malta's Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, for his part, found himself in a dilemma over Cairo's request that his government extradite the sole surviving hijacker, a 22-year-old Palestinian who gave his name as Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq, to Egypt. For Bonnici, going along with the Egyptians threatened Malta's close ties to Libya. He refused, arguing that the crimes involved had taken place on Maltese soil and that Egypt does not have an extradition treaty with Malta...
...compromise was reached in 1932 whereby the Maltese were allowed a new general election with the understanding that whatever government was elected would forbid all teaching of Italian in primary schools, would oppose efforts to Italianize the Maltese. Nationalist, pro-Italian Sir Ugo Pasquale Mifsud promptly was swept into office with an impressive majority, began to dodge the agreement by lowering the age limit so that at the youngest possible age Maltese bambini might enter secondary schools, where Italian is permissible, and by sending Maltese school teachers to Italy for training...