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...National Security Council briefing in the Oval Office, McFarlane reviewed with the President what the U.S. could and should do. As usual, the options seemed pitifully few. U.S. and Italian ships and planes were tailing the Achille Lauro as it wandered across the eastern Mediterranean, headed toward the Syrian port of Tartus. The U.S. immediately established contact with the other governments principally involved: Italy, Egypt, Israel. To each, Washington gave the same message: American policy toward terrorism, as always, was not to give an inch. At most, the U.S. would sanction what it called "discussions" with the terrorists...
Surprisingly, the U.S. ploy worked. When the Achille Lauro tried to enter Syrian waters near Tartus, the Syrians turned it away. Cyprus also refused to allow the ship into port. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "Everyone had been sensitized. It wasn't so much a matter of U.S. pressure as the fact that no one wanted these pirates on their hands." The Achille Lauro had little choice but to turn back toward Egypt's Port Said...
...sometimes called themselves "the beach people." On Sunday, the night before the 23,629-ton Achille Lauro reached Alexandria, they celebrated the 59th birthday of Marilyn Klinghoffer of Manhattan. It had been her idea that they should all take the eleven-day cruise from Genoa to Naples, Alexandria, Port Said, Ashdod, Limassol, Rhodes, Piraeus, Capri and back to Genoa...
...port: a starboard sweep rows with his or her left hand on the end of the oar handle...
starboard: a port sweep rows with his or her right hand on the end of the oar handle...