NEWS
February 14, 1999 | JOHN DANISZEWSKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Libya announced Saturday that there has been a breakthrough in talks over the proposed trial in the Netherlands of two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, a crime that killed 270 people near Lockerbie, Scotland, 10 years ago.
NEWS
January 24, 1986 | Associated Press
About 5,000 people chanting "Kill Reagan" marched through Karachi on Thursday in a show of support for Libya. The procession, organized by the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, denounced U.S. economic sanctions against Libya. The United States claims that Libya supports international terrorists. Hundreds of helmeted riot police armed with shields, batons, rifles and tear-gas guns surrounded the American Consulate and halted the procession several hundred yards away.
NEWS
December 24, 1986
President Reagan took action to keep in force year-old economic sanctions against Libya, which were scheduled to expire on Jan. 7, 1987. In a letter to the House and Senate, Reagan said the crisis that led to the sanctions "has not been resolved." Last January, after Libyan-inspired terrorist attacks at airports in Rome and Vienna, Reagan imposed a virtual trade embargo against the North African nation.
NEWS
January 22, 1987 | Associated Press
President Reagan on Wednesday renewed a broad set of economic sanctions against Libya, saying the policies of the government of Col. Moammar Kadafi continue to pose an extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. The sanctions, banning Libyan exports and imports and forbidding Americans from traveling to Libya, were imposed a year ago.
NEWS
January 13, 1986 | United Press International
The Norwegian government today announced its support for economic sanctions against Libya, giving the strongest endorsement yet of the plan from any European nation but stopping short of agreeing to apply them. Foreign Ministry spokesman Per Paust stressed that Norway is not likely to actually apply the U.S.-proposed sanctions except in concert with its European neighbors. The endorsement was nevertheless the strongest statement yet in favor of the sanctions from any European nation.
NEWS
January 26, 1990
President Bush informed Congress on Thursday that he is extending economic sanctions imposed on Libya four years ago because he has determined that Col. Moammar Kadafi's government still poses a threat to U.S. security. "The policies and actions of the government of Libya continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," Bush said in a statement required by law every six months.