U.S. Considering Country’s Offer to Assume Some Culpability for 1988 Incident That Killed 270. Libya agreed for the first time yesterday to take a measure of responsibility for the 1988 terrorist bombing that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, said a senior State Department official who reported that the offer is being studied carefully. At a meeting in London with U.S. and British diplomats who have long been negotiating a statement of responsibility, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s emissaries proposed words to accompany a previous offer to pay as much as $2.7 billion to the relatives of 270 victims. “There is some agreement along those lines with Libya. I’m not in a position to say that it’s sufficient,” the official said. “We intend to go through it very carefully back here.” Full Story
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