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...Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb had more elaborate things to say. More than 13 hours before Abbas' flight, at 12:30 a.m. EDT, Rabb had delivered a formal request to the Italian Justice Ministry for Abbas' provisional arrest on charges of complicity in hijacking and murder. According to the Italians, the evidence offered by the U.S. to support that request was inadequate. The formal reason Craxi later gave for denying the request was that the EgyptAir Boeing 737 in which Abbas had ridden along with the hijackers was Egyptian government territory. In addition he noted that Abbas carried an Iraqi...
...Palestinian press service based in Tunis, reported that P.L.O. Chairman Arafat had sent Craxi a message warning him against turning Abbas over to the U.S. If the Italians did so, Arafat reportedly said, "uncontrollable reactions could result, as happened in the affair of the Achille Lauro."An irate Rabb later declared that he was "not happy with what happened today...
Robert Minhinnick: Reading from Modern Welsh Poets, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library...
Baseball and the American Character: Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, Copley Square...
Alistair Macleod: reading from his work, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library...