WORLD SHUNS LIBYA: Airlines worldwide canceled flights and nationsordered Libyan diplomats to leave today as United Nations sanctionstook effect. They are intended to pressure Col. Moammar Gadhafi tohand over two suspects in the December, 1988, Pan Am bombing overLockerbie, Scotland, that took 270 lives. Gadhafi's regime, adamantin the face of the failure of its appeal to the world court, vowedthat Arabs would "kneel to no one" but Allah. The state news agencyin Tripoli said Libya would take unspecified "reciprocal measures"against the states that expel its envoys. Libya sought to flout thesanctions by sending planes into the sky, but they were turned away -in one case by Italian …
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