The World - News from June 10, 1986

Abul Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist accused of masterminding the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro last year, received no help from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat or from the Syrian government, according to a report prepared by Italian prosecutors. The report is to form the basis of the case against four alleged hijackers and 11 other Arabs accused of involvement in the case. The trial, on charges including the hijacking and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an American passenger, is to open June 18 in Genoa, with many defendants being tried in absentia, among them Abbas.