The World - News from April 19, 1987

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi has “intervened for the release” of a British engineer jailed in Tripoli since November, 1982, the Libyan news agency Jana reported. However, a British Foreign Office spokesman said Robert Maxwell, a 38-year-old Scotsman serving a 12-year sentence for alleged bribery and industrial espionage, had not been freed “as far as we know.” Jana said Kadafi’s move was a result of efforts by left-wing British lawmaker Ron Brown and his colleagues “and also out of consideration for the masses of the British people who have . . . (condemned) the savage and barbaric aggression” of the U.S. raids on Libya.