Terrorism: The Voyage of The Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro A Mediterranean pleasure cruise turns into a 52-hour nightmare at sea

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Continued Veliotes: "I want you to do two things. In my name, I want you to call (the Egyptian Foreign Minister), tell him what we've learned, tell him the circumstances, tell him that in view of this and the fact that we, and presumably they, didn't have those facts, we insist that they prosecute those sons of bitches. The second thing: I want you to pick up the phone and call Washington and tell them what we've done. And if they want to follow it up, that's fine."

On Thursday morning, Marilyn Klinghoffer, dazed and shocked, went ashore briefly to make a telephone call to her family in New York. The next day she and the other surviving members of the "beach people" were taken to Cairo to prepare for the long, sad flight home, with a detour to Italy, where she helped pick the four hijackers out of a lineup. On Saturday, after waiting two days for the Egyptian government to permit the Achille Lauro to leave Port Said, the ship's owners announced that the remainder of the eleven-day cruise had been canceled.

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