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...before Christmas in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground? The answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed it in a suitcase, and sent it on a circuitous route to the final blast...
...Middle East to try to broker a peace conference, Scowcroft sets the overall game plan. Scowcroft, for instance, proposed cutting U.S. conventional forces in Europe, an idea that culminated in the signing of a treaty by 22 nations in November 1990. Bush's December 1989 surprise meeting in Malta with Mikhail Gorbachev was cooked up by the President and Scowcroft on the veranda of the American embassy in Paris after Bush made a four-day swing through fast- changing Poland and Hungary...
...central feature of last week's initiative -- the elimination of MIRVed ICBMs -- is recycled from a proposal that Bush first thought about putting to Gorbachev two years ago. In November 1989, when Bush was preparing for his first meeting as President with Gorbachev at Malta, the State Department floated the idea that the U.S. should seek a ban on mobile MIRVed ICBMs. The department tried to promote the plan at the White House as a way of giving a "Bush stamp" to a START treaty that was otherwise largely the inherited handiwork of the Reagan Administration...
...Dear Mikhail-Dear George correspondence. When several of Gorbachev's letters reiterated stale positions in boilerplate language, Bush complained that they seemed to have been drafted by the Soviet Foreign Ministry (as indeed they had). That was part of the reason he suggested they hold their first meeting at Malta. The two hit it off spectacularly. Gorbachev came away convinced that Bush would not try to exploit his difficulties, while Bush developed an even deeper sense of engagement in the fate of a fellow leader...
...private talks with Bush, Gorbachev's tone was more pleading -- a sharp change from December's Malta meeting. As soon as the two leaders sat down Thursday morning, the Soviet President gave a gloomy appraisal of his economic woes. He told Bush he realized a trade deal would deliver little immediate practical relief, but added that he needed the political symbolism of bringing home some bacon. Bush reiterated that the U.S.S.R. must first pass a law guaranteeing free emigration, and even then it would be "extremely difficult" for both the Administration and the Senate to approve a trade deal unless...