World News 15-08-2003 who: Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin what: Has urgent talks with US as French seek to scupper Lockerbie payout where: Paris when: Yesterday snippet: Following reports that Libya is about to accept responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and offer a payout to the victims` families, French leaders have complained that its citizens should receive the same payout for the bombing of UTA flight 772 in 1989, in which 171 people died. mThe BBC says US Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to the minister by telephone to head off a potential veto against the lifting of UN sanctions, a condition of the deal. [... more]

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