December 7 1998
The Libyan Foreign Ministry says a deal settling a long dispute over a trial for two Libyan suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet is closer after talks withthe United nations Secretary General, Kofi Anan, the official new agency JANA said today.
but hours earlier, a JANA editor who reflects the views of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, scorned Western hopes for a handover of the two suspects before Dec. 21, the 10th anniversry of the attack in the skies.





