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...withdrew from the government with two other Republican ministers on Oct. 16, Craxi's government seemed doomed to collapse. Spadolini was angered by the Prime Minister's decision to release Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the Palestinian Liberation Front leader who Washington believes planned to use the Achille Lauro to launch an attack on Israel. Furious at having been excluded from any prior consultation in that decision, Spadolini was also protesting what he considered the pro-Arab tilt in Rome's Middle East policy. For the pro-U.S. Defense Minister, the stand was a matter of principle, but he lacked...
...creepy (in The Crowd, a man notices that the same group of bystanders shows up at car accidents across the city). Three more episodes are scheduled for this season. Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theater on Showtime, meanwhile, continues to provide imaginative family fare. In December, Duvall will launch a second Showtime series, Tall Tales, which will retell the legends of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and Annie Oakley...
Today's meeting will launch a series of discussions set up by the race relations task force, a subdivision of the student-faculty Committee on College Life. The meetings are being sponsored by the College and the Harvard Foundation, a College administrative body set up to foster improved race relations...
Prior to the trip, passengers will have to go through a three-day orientation and training program at a luxurious resort complex near the launch...
Exactly what happened next is not known, but it seemed that the four Palestinians intended to remain quietly aboard the liner until it reached Ashdod. There, according to this theory, they would launch a terrorist attack, seize Israeli hostages if possible, and demand the release of 50 Palestinians, including many from their own organization, the Palestine Liberation Front, who were being held in Israeli prisons. But something went wrong--probably the chance discovery of their weapons and ammunition by a member of the crew. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, they later told Italian authorities that they...