Arabic News Weekly Edition for Libya, 10/12/1998
Weekly Edition, Libya - Week of October 12, 1998
- Britain offers Lockerbie trial witnesses guarantees
Britain insisted that two Libyan suspects in the 1988 explosion of a Pan-Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland have to serve any sentence they may receive in Scotland, in case they are convicted by an international court. Libya-UK, Politics, 10/17/1998 - Libya expresses unhappiness by changing Arab League delegate title
Official sources at the Arab League said yesterday that Libya has changed its delegate's title at the AL from the permanent to resident representative. Libya, Politics, 10/17/1998 - One million Egyptian peasants to cultivate Libyan lands
In press declarations today, the coordinator of youth foreign relations for the revolution committee's movement, Rafea El-Madani, said that Libyan Leader Moammar Gaddafi announced Libya's great need for one million Egyptian peasants to cultivate and possess Libyan lands on the "Great Man Made River." Egypt-Libya, Economics, 10/17/1998 - Voice of Africa is the new name of the Libyan Radio
Libyan Radio started broadcasting under the name "Voice of Africa" instead of its previous name of "Voice of the Arab Nation." Libya-Regional, Politics, 10/14/1998