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Friday, November 12, 1993
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United Nations tightens penalties against Libya
Refusal to give up bombing suspects prompts action
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Despite complaints that it was doing too little too late, the Security Council voted yesterday to tighten sanctions against Libya for refusing to turn over suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner.
The Security Council shied away from hitting Libya where it would hurt most; its oil exports. And U.S. Ambassador Madeleine Albright was noncommittal about whether Washington would try again for an oil embargo.
Libya's economy relies on its oil exports of 1.5 million barrels a day, generating $9 billion a year in revenue.
Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. Six relatives of victims witnessed the vote to expand the air and arms embargo in effect since April 1992 into a freeze of Libya's foreign bank accounts and a ban on its import of some oil equipment. The vote was 11-0 with four abstentions.
Susan Cohen, whose daughter was among the bombing's 270 victims, complained the sanctions are inadequate and unlikely to force Libyan leader Moammar Gadhaf to surrender the suspects to the United States and Britain, where they are charged.
Despite initial U.S. support, European nations heavily dependent on Libyan oil blocked adoption of a petroleum embargo. A group called Families of Pan Am 103/Lockerbie said in a statement an oil embargo would be necessary.
"The only thing likely to do the job is a full oil embargo. This endless diplomatic game at the U.N. is nothing but an avoidance of action." Cohen said.
The limited sanctions are scheduled to take effect Dec. 1 unless Libya cooperates.
Libya says it has urged the suspects — Abdul Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah — to surrender but cannot legally force them to do so.
The suspects say they want assurances of a fair trial in a neutral country. The Libyan ambassador, Ali Elhouderi, suggested that the United States would not be appropriate because of "areas of deficiency in the American judicial system, which were revealed by the Rodney King trial in Los Angeles."
Four white policemen were acquitted in the beating of King, a black motorist, in Los Angeles in 1991.
It took a tussle with the Russians, weeks of ardous negotiations and intervention by President Clinton to expand the sanctions. The United States, Britain and France let an Oct. 1 deadline pass in an effort to win Russian support and give Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali more time to press the Libyans.
The Russians at one point threatened a veto because of concern the North African country wouldn't repay a $4 billion debt to Moscow for military and commercial trade. Moscow voted in favor of the resolution after it was revised to say the sanctions do not remove Libya's duty to repay its foreign debt.
Although the sanctions include a freeze on Libya's financial assets in foreign bank accounts, diplomats believe Tripoli already has withdrawn its liquid assets in the four months it has known the penalties were coming.
Besides handing over the suspects in the Pan Am bombing, France wants Libya to cooperate in its investigation of four suspects, including Gadhafii's brother-in-law, in a 1989 attack on a French DC-10 airliner over Niger that killed 171 people.
THE NEWS in brief
CANTERBURY, England
Officials insist that seat belts should be mandatory on buses
The crash Wednesday, which also killed the British driver, has focused attention on a dispute within the European Community about safety belts.
A doctor who treated Americans injured in a tourist bus crash said yesterday that nine passengers might not have died if they had been wearing safety belts.
"It is apparent that those who died were thrown out of the side of the coach, which landed on top of them," said Susan Brooks, director of accident and emergency services at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. "Had they been restrained within the coach, they would have been protected."
Police said the coach clipped a van, then careened off the M2 highway in southeastern England and shot down a 20-foot embankment.
Robert Key, the government minister responsible for roads, said Britain had been pressing for European Community rules requiring seat belts on buses.
Officials at EC headquarters in Brussels said coach manufacturers are required to attach safety belts only to "exposed seats" — those in the front of the bus and along the aisle.
Britain, Denmark and Germany have joined the community's executive agency in pushing for tougher regulations that would require all seats to be equipped with seat belts.
Although Britain could require British manufacturers to install belts throughout, it could not bar buses from other EC nations.
"They are being very well cared for," said U.S. Consul- General Elizabeth Ann Swift. "In terms of morale they're bearing up very well."
LONDON Study; Alcohol doesn't kill brain cells
LONDON
Contrary to popular belief, chronic drinking does not kill nerve cells in the brain — it just disconnects them, a new Danish study shows.
The findings, based on detailed examinations of the brains of alcoholics who died, suggest it may be easier than previously thought to restore brain function damaged by heavy drinking.
Dead nerve cells do not regenerate and are not replaced in the brain, but the fibers that link them will sometimes regrow after being damaged.
"It gives some hope in the sense that it might be possible to restore at least some function" of the brain, Dr. Bente Pakkenberg said yesterday. She is director of the Neurological Research Laboratory at the Bartholin Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The study appears in the Nov. 13 issue of the British medical journal Lancet.
MINNEAPOLIS
Girl wins sexual harassment case
The state Department of Human Rights ruled in favor of a elementary school girl who complained that boys as young as 6 years old made lewd remarks and sexual taunts at her on the school bus.
The agency found probable cause that the Eden Prairie School District discriminated against Cheltzie Hentz and other girls because the boys were not handled as violators of the district's sexual harassment policy.
Cheltzie was 6 during the 1991-92 school year, when she complained to her mother about "naughty" language and behavior on the bus, including comments about girls' sex organs and explicit suggestions about oral sex.
In April, the district agreed to crack down on sexual harassment, after the U.S. Education Department said it mishandled Celtzite's complaints.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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