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Police foil a terrorist plot...
Although the students have refused to talk, the Italians believe the terrorist cell was organizing a suicide bomb attack, perhaps directed at a garage located below the quarters that house many of the Marine guards. The police assume that since it would take at least 200 Ibs. of plastic explosives to blow up a building the size of the embassy, the gang was still in the process of building up its cache. In fact, according to the police, the gang may have been planning the attack for at least a year...
...plot only after the Ladispoli roundup. In gratitude for the deft police work, Ambassador Maxwell Rabb paid a 40-minute call on Rome's chief of police, Marcello Monarca. Said Rabb: "Your country has again demonstrated that it is in the vanguard of the fight against subversive and terrorist elements that stain the world with blood...
Dressed in a khaki army jacket and black-and-white kaffiyeh, Arafat looked incongruous in the sea of dark business suits. Peppering his talk with quotes from the Koran, Arafat called for more terrorist operations against Israel. Though he did not mention the P.L.O. dissidents or Assad by name, Arafat obliquely admitted his own fallibility by referring to "some errors" in the Palestinian movement. Nonetheless, he asked for a vote of confidence. "I will accept any verdict or judgment," he declared...
...just after dusk when the French-built Falcon 20 flew over the presidential palace and the adjacent U.S. ambassador's residence in the Beirut suburb of Baabda. But then the plane took a second turn over the compound, and Lebanese soldiers, suspecting a terrorist attack, opened fire with antiaircraft guns. Fortunately they missed their target, a private plane owned by the Saudi Arabian Golden Contracting Co. The pilot had veered off course while approaching Beirut Airport. Aerial traffic controllers were able to guide the jet to a safe landing...