Word: stiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italian and American armed forces both converged on the 737. When it ; became clear that the Italian paramilitary forces did not plan to surrender custody of the terrorists, Major General Carl W. Stiner and an Italian colonel got into a sharp debate. The U.S. commandos, said a Washington official, "were pulling back the bolts" on their rifles. Abbas, in his Yugoslav interview, concurred. "American and Italian soldiers were threatening each other with their weapons, ready to shoot," he said...
After the commandos were ordered by Washington to stand down, Stiner refused to give up entirely. When the 737 took off for Rome 17 hours later, carrying Abbas and another Palestinian official, Stiner hopped into a T-39 trainer jet. He took off from a taxiway without tower permission and shadowed the 737 to Rome, where he made an emergency landing. In his resignation speech last week, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi announced that Italy had filed a protest over both the T-39's landing and the pursuit of the 737 by an F-14 to within 25 miles...