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...domestic priorities. The biggest change on the economic side has been industrial. In some areas we have not done so well, but wherever we have given a thrust we have done quite well. Nuclear power is one, space another. We have got our own launch vehicles. We make our own satellites. On the ) defense side, we have done quite a lot because certain items have not been available, and secondly because security was compromised no matter who you bought them from. Electronic systems, for example. Whoever we buy them from knows what we've got, so we have to make...
...only had been aware of the hijack plot before it took place, but had been involved in the planning. Well before the EgyptAir interception took place, some diplomats and intelligence analysts had reached the conclusion that the Achille Lauro hijacking was in fact a bungled terrorist attempt to launch an attack on the Israeli harbor of Ashdod, using the cruise liner merely as transport. They also believed that while Arafat was aware of the plan to attack Ashdod, neither he nor P.L.F. Leader Abul Abbas knew about the liner hijacking in advance. Apparently, the hijacking occurred only after the terrorists...
...keep Reagan above the fray, his aides made no changes in his public schedule. Thursday morning the President traveled to Chicago to continue his uphill battle for tax reform. On the way to Andrews Air Force Base, he told a staffer that the U.S. had been prepared to launch a military raid on the Achille Lauro to rescue the hostages. The President seemed personally chagrined that the hijackers had been whisked off the ship, foreclosing the rescue mission...
...intelligence sources confirmed to TIME that such a plan existed. According to one source, a seagoing branch of the U.S. antiterrorist Delta Force, composed essentially of Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air and Land forces), was not ready to carry out the operation on Tuesday, but was able to launch an attack by Wednesday night. The U.S. plan called for the SEALs, who had been practicing their assault at Akrotiri, Cyprus, to glide from the air ^ onto the Achille Lauro. After the initial assault, Navy helicopters would have brought in more Delta teams. The U.S. apparently knew in advance exactly...
...Saratoga received the order to launch its Tomcats, four to undertake the interception and three as backup. Accompanied by two of the Hawkeye radar aircraft, the fighters loitered in the vicinity of Crete. At 4:37 p.m., they received the interception order. By 5:30, they had spotted the EgyptAir plane, and the final drama began. Back at his vacation home in Bar Harbor, Me., Defense Secretary Weinberger called the President at the White House to inform him of the mission's success...