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Though nine days had passed since the U.S. wrested the hijackers from his control, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak demonstrated that his wounds have not healed. In a 40-minute interview with TIME Middle East Bureau Chief Dean Fischer at Uruba Palace, he conceded that he knew a passenger had been murdered when he let the hijackers fly from Egypt, but strongly defended his action. Puffing on a cigar, the President was animated and occasionally agitated as he discussed the dramatic events and their impact on U.S.-Egyptian relations...
...land in Italy. His declaration that "there is a new patriotism alive in our country" reflected the widespread joy felt by the American public at finally getting a chance to strike back against terrorism. When reporters asked whether he had any reason to apologize to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Reagan issued a one-word reply: "Never." Richard Wirthlin, the White House pollster, told the President at midweek that his job-approval rating had hit a heartwarming...
...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 visited Washington, it also appeared that the Middle East peace initiative advanced by Jordan's King Hussein and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had been dealt yet another severe setback...
Washington accepted Mubarak's claim that he did not know of Klinghoffer's murder at the time he negotiated the hijackers' safe passage out of Egypt. "We think he did it in good faith," a senior U.S. official said, "but whatever deal he cut came uncut when we found out they killed someone...
...Thursday morning, however, Mubarak was becoming distinctly less credible. He told NBC-TV's Today show that "when this murder emerged, we had already sent the hijackers out of the country." Where had they gone? "Perhaps to Tunis," Mubarak said. Challenged by reporters later in the day, Mubarak questioned whether Klinghoffer had been killed at all. Said he: "Maybe the man is in hiding or did not board the ship at all." By then, U.S. patience was beginning to wear thin. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Shultz called on Cairo to "hold these...