Word: pelletreau
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Herman Cohen, President Bush's point man on Africa, has also conducted a series of little-noticed recent visits to Tripoli. Cohen's travel was partly underwritten by an Arab businessman, Kamel Ghribi, who has retained former Bush State Department Middle East policy chief Robert Pelletreau as his Washington lawyer. On one of his sojourns, Cohen and a fellow Washington consultant treated the Maximum Leader with extraordinary deference. As Gaddafi denounced Israel, they listened. When he expressed eagerness to do business with U.S. companies, they offered encouragement...