European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday. November 1. 1985 columns William Buckley Mubarak s Tantrum nothing but a political gesture the pm buc Tantrum of president Kos i Mubarak has got to be the kind of thing fur which one prepares by spending an entire hour in makeup where they Supply tears of rape drawn eyes throbbing veins in the forehead. After All. Mubarak is a pretty Coo cat. And he can be assumed to know How the american government fell Afler the hijacking of the a Chilic , and How the american pc pc fell when they Learned thai a cripple in a wheel chair had been shot and los cd overboard. What Mubarak promised the hijackers was Safe Pas Sage out of a Gyp. In a purely technical sense he lived up to exactly whal he promised. The hijackers were indeed shipped out of i Egypt and left the country with out molestation. What then happened was not a Egypt s responsibility. If the United slates was guilty of piracy As Mubarak charges Hen the untied Stales has to answer to i court of world opinion Given that it no anger accepts the jurisdiction of the world court in matters involving political questions. The court of world opinion i not Likely to consider it an act of piracy to apprehend an air plane carrying Fugi Tives from Justice. Piracy is More generally understood As apprehending a vehicle with innocent people in it for the purpose of kidnapping or killing them. Mubarik senses this. And he is himself intimately aware of the consequences of terrorism. Indeed if it a to not for the most dramatic act of terrorism in 1981, 1. Would l be president of Egypt. Anwar Sadat was sitting a few feel from hint when Sandal was shot by fanatic moslem aggrieved by that great statesman s Noble act of reconciliation with Israel. And therein lies he explanation fur Mubarak s synthetic Wrath. I1krk is another was to seek perspective in the Mailer. Suppose that the four hijackers had been Mem Bers of the Ira the Irish terrorist association. Suppose the identical scenario a Large italian cruise ship is Sci de. A passenger killed the Ira terrorists put in at porn said negotiate for Safe passage which is tendered and the 1-Gypiian Airliner is brought Down in Sicily. Would Mubarak and the egyptian people have Felt the same sense of outrage no. The problem is a deep one. And every time one breathe a Little hone As us did a few weeks ago when it looked As though Hussein would enter into Active negotiations with Israel ill. Seething resentments of the Region Are ventilated. The Iro Iest is Over the capture of four palestinian terrorists because the sympathy of mini of the Arab world is. Let s face it Wilh them rather than Riih Law and order. It s precisely the knowledge of where the sympathy lies that moved the italian government knowing fun Well that the United slates would be enraged by the act u release Mohammed Abbas of the of Ilc Sling lib Anthony Lewis cration tront. There is link Nubi that Abbas the seasoned terrorist masterminded the whole Man Euver aboard the Achille . But prime minister Praxi pleading the insufficiency of proc Clorial documentation elected to let him slip away to Yugoslavia. His was a political gesture pure