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When Egypt's president visits with Colonel Ghadafi, Washington's sanctions policy against Libya is in trouble. "Egypt is America's best ally in the region, and if Mubarak is prepared to visit Ghadafi, then other countries are likely to follow suit," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The U.S.'s ability to maintain sanctions is waning, because African countries are threatening to ignore them...
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...made much effort to control it," says Henry Sokolski, the Pentagon's top proliferation expert during the Bush Administration. Clinton's nonproliferation team wisely focuses on reducing the Russian stockpile and keeping loose nukes away from rogue states like Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Libya. The threat of a nuclear breakout in India or Pakistan is considered a back-burner issue...
...recent article, Scarry notes that EMIhas caused military aircraft crashes in the past.Between 1982 and 1988, six Black Hawk helicopterscrashed as a result of EMI, killing 22. During a1986 mission near Libya, EMI also caused the crashof an F111 bomber and disabled five others...
...tricky than the White House might have anticipated. Despite a sound relationship with Africa?s economically strongest nation and an emotional celebration of Nelson Mandela?s achievement, the visit produced moments of discord: Not only did Mandela make a spirited defense of his relationships with the likes of Cuba, Libya and Iran, the South African president also publicly criticized President Clinton?s African trade bill for its ?trade-not-aid? formulation, and for seeking to set political limits on trade by African countries. But his two days on safari in Botswana aren?t likely to yield any such nasty surprises...