DATE=8/15/03

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE=U-S / LIBYA / LOCKERBIE (S)

NUMBER=2-306532

BYLINE=DAVID GOLLUST

DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT

CONTENT=

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INTRO: Senior Bush administration officials say there will be no early end to U-S economic sanctions against Libya even though the Muammar Gadhafi government will shortly fulfill terms for the permanent lifting of U-N sanctions stemming from the bombing of Pan Am flight 1-0-3. The families of the 270 victims of the 1988 airliner attack were briefed on the status of the case Friday in Washington. V-O-A's David Gollust reports from the State Department.

TEXT: Secretary of State Colin Powell joined in the briefing for the families on rapid developments on the Pan Am 1-0-3 case that are likely to lead to a Security Council vote ending U-N sanctions next week. The vote will trigger payment to the families of the first installment of what could be ten million dollars in Libyan compensation for each person killed.

However Dan Cohen, whose college student daughter was killed in the terror attack, told reporters here the money will not bring closure for the still-grieving families:

///Cohen actuality///

It's not money, money, money. Everyone of us, everyone of us, would have foregone every cent of that in a heartbeat, if this had never happened.

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A senior administration official said the United States may abstain in the U-N sanctions vote as a sign of continuing concern about Libyan behavior, including its weapons programs, human rights violations, and meddling in the affairs of other countries, especially in Africa. (Signed)

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