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...erstwhile enemies. The Final Hurdle LIBYA The U.N. Security Council lifted decade-old sanctions against Tripoli, paving the way for Libya to pay compensation totaling $2.7 billion to families of the 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. France lifted a threatened veto of the vote after striking a deal with Libya for increased payments to relatives of 170 victims of a French UTA plane blown up over Niger in 1989. Burden of Proof IRAN The International Atomic Energy Agency gave Tehran a deadline of Oct. 31 to prove its nuclear program...
...done deal yet, thanks to a familiar U.S. nemesis. France has threatened to veto the plan when it reaches the Security Council. Its beef: Libya has paid only $3,378 to $33,780 apiece to the relatives of 170 people killed in another Libya-backed terrorist attackon a French airliner in 1989. Paris' stance has not won it any new friends in Washington. Secretary of State Colin Powell, sore over France's opposition to the Iraq war, privately warned his French counterpart last week not to veto the deal...
...National Organization for Women and the National Rifle Association are decrying the move. In a new Pew Research poll, respondents most familiar with the FCC's action opposed it by roughly 10 to 1. Still, it has the support of key G.O.P. leaders, and President Bush has threatened to veto any bill overturning it. Republicans who are breaking ranks on the issue face growing party pressure. On the morning of the vote, Congressman Zach Wamp, a Republican from Tennessee who voted to kill the FCC plan, spotted House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin, who backs it. "I kind...
...becomes law. Berlusconi's remote control worked better than George W. Bush's last week. The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to reverse a regulatory ruling allowing TV networks to reach up to 45% of U.S. audiences. Reverting to the previous 35% cap could trigger a White House veto, and force Viacom's CBS network and News Corp's Fox to sell stations. Good news for angry media activists, but what...
...Americans that he can't act against terrorism while Israeli troops continue to conduct raids inside PA territory, and that Israeli restraint is the key to any success. But given the relative certainty that one or all of the militant groups will sooner or later send suicide bombers to veto the latest peace plan, such restraint may prove difficult for Sharon to maintain and for the Bush administration to request. The security situation may remains a huge obstacle to getting started along the "roadmap," and a major trip wire every step of the way after that...