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...realized that a rescue operation was under way. In truth, it hardly mattered, because the events of terrorism, attempted rescue and death had been so inextricably bound together. "Dear friends," Captain Galal said mournfully after it was all over, "my aircraft was the same one that was hijacked to Sigonella." It was indeed the same Boeing 737 that, scarcely six weeks earlier, had been forced by American Navy jets to land in Sicily, to yield to Italian authorities the terrorists who had hijacked the Achille Lauro. The question was how many more planes would be destroyed, and lives lost, before...
...case the Yugoslav conflict triggers international military action. Under an agreement signed in October, 12 American F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS would hop over from Germany and park at Gioia del Colle, south of Bari, Italy, when needed. The Italians have also agreed to allow expanded U.S. operations at Sigonella Air Station in Sicily...
...other was an investigation into the standoff between the U.S. and the Italian military at the Sigonella NATO base, where the EgyptAir Boeing first landed. Local police reported that tensions between the two allies turned ugly when the U.S. special Delta Force saw its prey being taken from it. Nevertheless, the clash never went beyond raised voices. Said Craxi Envoy Antonio Badini, who negotiated the surrender of the four terrorists to Italian authorities: "Abbas' role appeared to us of secondary significance." More important, he said, "was our respect for international law, our relations with Egypt...
...sure, a ripple of anti-American feeling did surface in Italy, but it has remained limited to an attempt by some 200 protesters to organize an anti- U.S. demonstration at Sigonella. Italian officials dismiss such protests. Said one defense official: "It's like a quarrel between husband and wife. Our ties are too deep, too historic to have been damaged by one incident." For all the appearance of Italian instability, some things never change. As the governing crisis proved once more, no postwar Italian government has ever fallen because of differences over foreign policy...
When Italian controllers denied permission for the intercepted EgyptAir Boeing 737 to land at the Sigonella air base in Sicily, the American military escorts declared a "fuel emergency" and ordered the 737 down. The pilot aborted his first approach. But he swung around, came in again and soon found himself surrounded by Italian carabinieri and some 50 U.S. Delta Force commandos, who had piled out of U.S. C-141 transport planes that had landed within moments of the EgyptAir craft and were proceeding on orders from the White House to take custody of the terrorists...