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The war in the Mid-East continued in 1985. A distraught Moslem man Four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achile Lauro
hugs his son moments after they survived a car bomb explosion outside while on a Mediterranean cruise. One American was killed. After the
a West Beirut restaurant in late August. They are shown being hurried ship was released the Egyptian government agreed to return the
away from the carnage by another man as cars burn in the rubble- hijackers to the PLO. However, the hijackers were intercepted by
American jets as they were flown out of Egypt and returned to Italy to
strewn street.
stand trial.

President Reagan, with his wife Nancy, gives the A-Okay sign from President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talk in front of
his hospital window in July after undergoing surgery to remove a a fire place at the Fleur D'Eau Tuesday in Geneva- November 19, 1985
cancerous tumor from his lower intestine. The 75-year old President
was back on the job within weeks after the operation.
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