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...same day, however, WAFA, the 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...
...Craxi's actions also alienated someone else: his Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini. The leader of the small (29 members in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies) Republican Party within Craxi's five-party coalition, Spadolini had grown increasingly unhappy with Craxi's foreign policy in the Middle East, which in the Defense Minister's view was increasingly pro-P.L.O. and ( excessively anti-Israel. But what bothered Spadolini even more was that Craxi made the decision to release Abbas without consulting him. Incensed, the Defense Minister announced in advance that he would not attend a Cabinet meeting that Craxi...
...Rome, meanwhile, the Craxi government's impending collapse had become almost inevitable. By Wednesday, Spadolini had made it official: he and two other Republican Party ministers were leaving the government. Craxi scheduled a parliamentary debate on the hijacking issue for the next day and observed, "Now everything is more difficult and uncontrollable...
...parliament, the Prime Minister delivered a spirited defense of his actions during the hijacking ordeal. Then Craxi made the five-minute trip to President Francesco Cossiga's Quirinale Palace to resign. Craxi's government had served 26 months, which was one month shy of the tenure record for the 44 governments Italy has had in the past 39 years. Instead, the outgoing coalition earned a new distinction: it was the first one to fall owing to a foreign policy crisis rather than a domestic one. At week's end Cossiga was carrying on discussions with all of the country...
...seemed to be making an equal effort to work out its problems with Italy. Whether justified or not, White House aides felt betrayed by the Italian Prime Minister's release of Abbas, and they were not about to forgive and forget instantly. Said a State Department official: "We felt Craxi created his own problem and is paying the price." Nonetheless, said another diplomat, "we don't see any precipitous departure from the major lines of U.S.-Italian relations...