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- THE WEEK, Page 19WORLDPolicy or Ploy?
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- If Libya is really changing course, Gaddafi might be doing the
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- Libya's tame Parliament, the 631-member general People's
- Congress, concluded 11 days of reportedly heated debate with
- the announcement that it would not object to handing over two
- suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing to the U.N. or the Arab
- League for trial. The session was accompanied by a series of
- articles in the government press critical of the policy line of
- the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
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- Since the Libyan press is at least as tightly controlled as
- the parliament, experts suggest Gaddafi himself might be
- orchestrating the change in policy. If he is, the suggested
- offer still falls short of demands from the U.S. and Britain.
- The two insist that the Libyan intelligence operatives be tried
- either in Britain, over whose territory the bomb went off, or in
- the U.S. Still, the offer might confuse the issue enough to
- weaken international solidarity when the next round of economic
- sanctions against Libya is scheduled to take effect, in August.
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