Word: rome
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Ever since Palestinian terrorists staged attacks last Dec. 27 at Rome and Vienna airports against the Israeli airline El Al, it was inevitable that the Israelis would respond. Last week they apparently thought they had their + chance. As a Libyan Gulfstream II executive jet carrying nine passengers and three crewmen passed the southeastern coast of Cyprus on its way to Damascus, two Israeli fighter jets intercepted the aircraft and ordered the pilot to proceed to Ramat David air force base, near Haifa...
...journalists strayed off to plumb local angles. Guido Dagatta of Milan's Italia Uno TV network had an interest in New England Assistant Coach Dante Scarnecchia. "Milan?" mused Scarnecchia congenially. "Is that the capital of Italy?" Smoke began to come off Dagatta. "No, the capital is Rome. Maybe you have heard...
Khadafy has repeatedly denied American assertions that he harbors and supports such Palestinian terrorists as Sabry al-Banna, the renegade Palestinian known as Abu Nidal whom the United States blames for the December 27 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna...
...Libya. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who devised the strategy and won White House support, had another purpose as well: to show Libya what it might confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they don't react, we've exposed them as a paper tiger...
...good steps in its professed campaign to fight terrorism by invoking strong economic sanctions against a principal actor in the terrorist scene--Libya and its leader, Moammar Khadafy. By contrast, our European allies appear to have learned nothing from such terrible events as the holiday airport massacres in Rome and Vienna. By their continued refusal to join the United States in concerted sanctions, European governments have doomed their own citizens and untold others to an increase in terrorist violence and a possible upsetting of the balance of power in the Arab world...