Word: libya
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that would attach political conditions to China's most-favored-nation status. In fact, MFN is a misnomer: it implies special treatment but really means normal, equal treatment. All but a handful of the 187 countries on earth have MFN, including such pariahs and miscreants as Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya and Burma...
...LIBYA'S TAME PARLIAMENT, THE 631-MEMBER GENeral People's Congress, concluded 11 days of reportedly heated debate with the announcement that it would not object to handing over two suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing to the U.N. or the Arab League for trial. The session was accompanied by a series of articles in the government press critical of the policy line of the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi...
...from the U.S. and Britain. The two insist that the Libyan intelligence operatives be tried either in Britain, over whose territory the bomb went off, or in the U.S. Still, the offer might confuse the issue enough to weaken international solidarity when the next round of economic sanctions against Libya is scheduled to take effect, in August...
Some committee members worry that the French will gain access to American missile technology of the sale goes through. Admittedly, this should generate some uneasiness. The French might well use this knowledge to build advanced weapons and sell them to Third World nations like Libya. Keeping the technology secret keeps such weapons from some of the world's nut cases...