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...price. When Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys cut a side deal with Pepsi to become the official drink of Texas Stadium, thus violating at least the spirit of the lucrative agreement the NFL had cut with Coca-Cola, he was playing the same game as the renegade Libyan oil industry...
While much of what Pollard handed over remains classified, the U.S. government says he delivered intelligence on the Pakistani nuclear-bomb program, Iraqi and Syrian chemical weapons, Libyan air defenses and the layout of the Palestine Liberation Organization's headquarters in Tunis, which the Israelis bombed in 1985. More critically, in handing over this material, Pollard betrayed the U.S. intelligence community's "sources and methods"--a blueprint of the capabilities and limitations of the world's most powerful intelligence network and important clues to the identity of U.S. agents abroad. Pollard argues that he gave Israel only information...
UNITED NATIONS: For Muammar Ghaddafi, that was a poker face. The Libyan leader's rambling, repetitive and occasionally defiant interview on CNN Thursday afternoon -- "They are not pieces of fruit," Ghaddafi said more than once, referring to the suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing -- left observers first chuckling and then wondering: How sincere...
...Americans are discussing a temporary suspension of the sanctions on Libya as a show of good faith," he says, "and that would probably be enough to satisfy Ghaddafi." But the ever-elusive Muammar has left himself an out. "So far, he's only promised that he would let the Libyan courts rule on the extradition," says Stogel. "And we all know which way that would come...
...bother bargaining? As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Monday, the proposal is "a way to call the Libyan government's bluff," whether or not it results in a trial. "The U.S. is being pragmatic," says Waller. "If Ghaddafi accepts, then this is the best justice the U.S. -- and the victims' families -- are going to get. If not, the U.S. will use his refusal as fodder to convince the U.N. Security Council to keep the sanctions...