World News Tonight (ABC) - 1992-04-14
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[0:01] State Representative got a clean bill of
[0:03] health even after a video camera showed
[0:05] him accepting cash. Watch Inside Edition
[0:08] Tuesday night at 7 on Channel 2. Join
[0:11] Paul Linman and Melissa Mills tonight on
[0:13] Channel 2 News at 6:30.
[0:20] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:23] with Peter Jennings.
[0:25] >> Good evening. And for only the second
[0:26] time in its history, the United Nations
[0:28] is about to impose economic sanctions
[0:30] against one of its members. The first
[0:31] time it was Iraq. Tomorrow it will
[0:34] almost certainly be Libya because the
[0:36] Libya leader Moar Gaddafi refuses to
[0:38] hand over to the United States and
[0:40] Britain two men wanted for the bombing
[0:42] of Panama Flight 103. The final
[0:45] countdown began this morning when the
[0:47] World Court said it had no power to
[0:49] intervene and sent the matter back to
[0:52] the UN Security Council. Here's ABC's
[0:54] Barry Dunore.
[0:56] >> The day before the rest of the world
[0:58] slammed the door on Libya, Colonel
[0:59] Gaddafi shut the door himself. Libya
[1:02] today suspended all international air
[1:04] traffic and communications. Officially,
[1:07] it was a day of mourning to mark the
[1:09] sixth anniversary of the US bombing raid
[1:11] on Libya. By severing international air
[1:14] links, Libya was imposing upon itself
[1:17] one of the key elements of the UN
[1:19] sanctions an outright air embargo. The
[1:22] other international sanctions include an
[1:24] arms embargo and reduced diplomatic
[1:26] contacts for Libya. Gaddafi had hoped
[1:29] the world court would help Libya escape
[1:31] the sanctions, but the court refused to
[1:33] block the United States and Britain from
[1:35] taking actions to force L