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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesLIBYAEmbassy Row
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- The mob of 300 demonstrators did a thorough job on
- Venezuela's embassy in Tripoli last week, smashing furniture,
- torching rooms, even uprooting plants from the garden. The sacking
- followed the United Nations Security Council's imposition of
- sanctions against Libya for refusing to surrender six suspected
- agents sought in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland
- in 1988 and a French airliner over Africa in 1989. Crowds also
- attacked or demonstrated before the embassies of other
- countries that had voted in favor of the sanctions.
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- Venezuela was apparently targeted because it had chaired
- the Security Council session that imposed the sanctions.
- Another object of mob ire was Russia's embassy. The former
- Soviet Union was once Libya's best friend and supplier in the
- "anti-imperialist" struggle.
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- But post-Soviet Russia has taken a firm stand against
- terrorism. At week's end, it joined with all the other members
- of the Security Council to strongly condemn the latest violence
- in Tripoli.
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