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...much fun as the scenery is the train itself. Visitors can stand alongside the engineer as he operates the brakes and the burner on the steep grades along the way. For the less daring there are two shorter rides, El Maiten-Vuelta al Rio and Esquel-Nahuel Pan, each 31 miles long. You can avoid cancellations due to snow by booking Argentine spring and summer trips--when it's fall and winter in the U.S. (El Maiten train station: 011-54-2945-49-5190). --By Uki Goni
...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...
...episode offers an inside glimpse of the enormous sensitivity 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...
Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has 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...
...partners, was allegedly able to leverage a bunch of discarded faxes and other office detritus into $8.4 million in ill-gotten gains - all through the Web. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission revealed Tuesday that they've charged Freeman and his cohorts with conspiracy and insider trading in the pan-national ring formed two and a half years ago in an AOL chat room. The case highlights the double-edged sword of policing an increasingly diffuse industry. On the downside, SEC investigators say their task has become more complicated as conspirators are increasingly removed from the trading floor...