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...joint news conference. His counterpart from Zagreb, Stijpe Mesic, said he accepted "the symbolic apology" and offered his own to "all those to whom the citizens of Croatia have inflicted pain or caused damage." The statements follow three years of rapprochement between the erstwhile enemies. The Final Hurdle LIBYA The U.N. Security Council lifted decade-old sanctions against Tripoli, paving the way for Libya to pay compensation totaling $2.7 billion to families of the 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. France lifted a threatened veto of the vote after striking a deal...
...Forgive and Forget? It is high time that the world accept Libya's confession that it was responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pam Am Flight 103, which crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland [Aug. 18-25]. Libya has been isolated and sanctioned for nearly 15 years, and it has already paid enough for this atrocity. Why should innocent Libyans suffer any longer from enormous unemployment, a bad medical situation and a disastrous economy, all of which are results of the sanctions? Michael D?ninger Salzburg, Austria...
...done deal yet, thanks to a familiar U.S. nemesis. France has threatened to veto the plan when it reaches the Security Council. Its beef: Libya has paid only $3,378 to $33,780 apiece to the relatives of 170 people killed in another Libya-backed terrorist attackon a French airliner in 1989. Paris' stance has not won it any new friends in Washington. Secretary of State Colin Powell, sore over France's opposition to the Iraq war, privately warned his French counterpart last week not to veto the deal...
Even if the French wind up acceding, families of the Lockerbie victims may not see all the money called for under the agreement. U.S. sanctions on Libya remain in force, and the country is still on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism. Those two restrictions must be lifted before the families of the victims can collect an additional $5 million apiece, according to an agreement they negotiated separately with Tripoli. But there are no signs the U.S. is about to relent. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that Washington still has grave concerns about Gaddafi...
...million Ransom Libya reportedly paid to secure the release of 14 Europeans held hostage in the Sahara desert...