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...been in operation during the OAU days, it is argued, genocide and civil wars in countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and Rwanda might have been avoided. The number one spoiler in the African Union and the factor that probably gives Western observers the greatest cause for concern is Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Already smarting at the way his dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed at another recent bit of scene stealing: the launch of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), an economic...
Legally, at least, the program is viable. The U.S. already holds visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya and Sudan to a higher immigration standard, requiring them to register and be fingerprinted and photographed at ports of entry. And the courts have consistently sided with the government on such immigration restrictions, including President Carter's order at the height of the Iran hostage crisis that all Iranian students studying in the U.S. register with the INS. That decision, though, was handed down before racial profiling became part of the national vocabulary...
...Prime Number $2.7 billion is the sum Libya may pay families of victims of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Libya wants the U.S. to lift economic sanctions...
...vote. On the eve of the election, militant youths rioted in Tizi Ouzou, the main town of the Berber Kabylie region, where political leaders had called on voters to boycott the election. The same day militant Islamic rebels killed 25 people in Sendjas, a village in Chlef province. LIBYA Possible Offer Libyan government officials denied reports that they were offering $2.7 billion in compensation to families of victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people. A New York law firm claimed the money would be offered in exchange...
...Castro has vehemently denied. But even if Cuba has been exporting this type of technology, maintaining the embargo will do little to encourage it to stop. Opening up the possibility of trade with the U.S. might do more to draw Cuba away from contacts with countries like Syria and Libya...