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...maverick ambassador to Washington. The prince gets around--Clinton had asked him over for a movie and popcorn at the White House--but here he seemed far afield. Yet as a bemused U.S. President sat and listened, Bandar suddenly began to press him on an unwelcome and delicate topic: Libya. Then Mandela joined...
...point of this tag-team effort? To persuade Clinton to support an easing of U.N. sanctions on Libya imposed after the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a decade earlier. That, in turn, would be a first step toward allowing American companies back into a country that the U.S. officially labels a terrorist nation. Caught off guard by the unscripted arm twisting, the President offered no reply. But the forceful appeal appalled several staff members, notably National Security Adviser Sandy Berger...
...that still surrounds the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am bombing. A reckoning of sorts now looms: on May 3 the two Libyans charged with blowing up the aircraft will stand trial in the Netherlands. Once that trial concludes, the long ban on U.S. commercial activity with Libya could be lifted. Says Ronald Neumann, the top State Department official in charge of Middle East affairs: "Change can now be imagined." Indeed, a quiet but intense lobbying campaign for detente has been launched by U.S. businessmen with ties to both the current Administration and that of former President George...
...also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi is] out of the terrorism business...
...claiming credit for the good times of the '90s - particularly if it's attributed in part to the actions of oil-producing countries. The U.S., after all, sent troops to protect Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Saddam Hussein in 1991, and their collusion with the likes of Iran and Libya to raise the oil price won't play well with Main Street America. Says Baumohl, "The Bush camp may even take the opportunity to chastise Gore for failing to be more aggressive with America's oil-producing allies...