The World - News from Nov. 11, 1985
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Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini said he has proof that the Achille Lauro hijackers telephoned Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunis before seizing the cruise ship in the Mediterranean last month. Spadolini said this disproves claims by PLO leader Yasser Arafat that his organization had nothing to do with the hijacking. “We have discovered tapes of telephone calls from Genoa to Tunis,” Spadolini told the Milan newspaper Il Giornale. The ship started its cruise in Genoa.
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