DIPLOMACY: Holdout in a People's Bureau

Intimidating "students"and worries about death squads

Another embassy went under siege last week. This time the site was Washington, D.C., and it was Americans, for a change, who were laying the siege. At the Libyan embassy in the nation's capital, four diplomats had rejected a State Department ultimatum to quit the country after they were officially declared "unacceptable."

The four, who range in age from 29 to 37, were accused of harassing other Libyans in the U.S. with threats of physical harm and even death unless they returned home. "We asked them to leave because they were engaged in contemptible and...

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