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DATE=12/21/98 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-243361 TITLE=LOCKERBIE ANNIVERSARY (L ONLY) BYLINE=LAURIE KASSMAN DATELINE=LONDON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: MEMORIAL SERVICES ARE BEING HELD IN BOTH BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES TO MARK THE EXACT MOMENT (1903 U-T-C / 2:03 PM EST) 10 YEARS AGO WHEN A NEW YORK-BOUND U-S AIRLINER EXPLODED AND CRASHED OVER LOCKERBIE, SCOTLAND -- A TRAGEDY CAUSED BY A TERRORIST'S BOMB. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT LAURIE KASSMAN REPORTS ON PROGRESS BEING MADE TO BRING TWO LIBYANS SUSPECTED OF PLANTING THE BOMB TO STAND TRIAL IN THE NETHERLANDS. TEXT: FAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF VICTIMS OF THE AIRLINER BOMBING, THEIR HEADS BOWED UNDER A LIGHT SCOTTISH RAIN, LISTEN TO A MINISTER'S WORDS OF REMEMBRANCE DURING CEREMONIES IN LOCKERBIE'S DRYFESDALE CEMETERY . /// MINISTER'S VOICE /// TEN YEARS AGO FOR YOU AND FOR US A BOMB WAS TICKING. BE ASSURED OF THIS, ANOTHER BOMB IS TICKING -- THE BOMB OF JUSTICE AND TRUTH. BE CERTAIN THAT OUR WREATH-LAYING IS NOT A SYMBOLIC GESTURE. IT IS DECLARATION THAT WE WILL NOT REST UNTIL WE HAVE JUSTICE AND TRUTH AND UNTIL ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEATHS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. /// END ACT /// ABOUT 50 FOREIGNERS, INCLUDING AMERICANS, JOINED THE PEOPLE OF LOCKERBIE FOR THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST AIR DISASTERS. TWO-HUNDRED-70!PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES WHEN A BOMB EXPLODED IN THE PLANE AS IT PASSED OVER THE SCOTTISH TOWN. PRINCE PHILIP, QUEEN ELIZABETH'S HUSBAND, ATTENDED THE CEREMONY AND LINGERED TO CHAT WITH RELATIVES OF THE VICTIMS. TEN YEARS LATER THE CONCERN FOR MOST OF THE MOURNERS IS BRINGING THE TWO LIBYAN SUSPECTS IN THE BOMBING CASE TO TRIAL. THEY MAY NOT HAVE TO WAIT MUCH LONGER. LIBYA HAS BEEN UNDER U-N SANCTIONS SINCE 1992 FOR REFUSING TO HAND OVER THE TWO MEN. LAST AUGUST, THE BRITISH AND U-S GOVERNMENTS DROPPED THEIR DEMANDS FOR A TRIAL IN ONE OF THEIR JURISDICTIONS AND AGREED TO LIBYA'S ORIGINAL PROPOSAL TO HOLD THE TRIAL IN A THIRD, NEUTRAL COUNTRY. BRITAIN'S ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS DEREK FATCHETT, SAYS THE ONLY OBSTACLE NOW IS LIBYA'S OBJECTION TO THE SUSPECTS SERVING TIME IN A SCOTTISH PRISON, IF CONVICTED. /// FATCHETT ACT /// IT APPEARS AS IF THE ONLY OUTSTANDING ISSUE IS IF THE TWO ACCUSED ARE FOUND GUILTY, WHERE THEY WILL SERVE THEIR PRISON SENTENCE. AND WE HAVE SAID THAT THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT THE SENTENCE WILL HAVE TO BE IN A SCOTTISH PRISON BECAUSE THE TRIAL IS TAKING PLACE UNDER SCOTTISH LAW, UNDER A SCOTTISH JUDGE IN A SCOTTISH COURT, EXCEPT THE COURT IS BASED IN A THIRD COUNTRY. /// END ACT /// IN AN EARLIER INTERVIEW WITH BRITISH RADIO, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROBIN COOK SAYS THERE IS NO COMPROMISE ON THAT ISSUE. BUT HE OFFERED TO OPEN UP SCOTTISH PRISONS FOR LIBYA'S INSPECTION. U-N SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN MET WITH LIBYA'S COLONEL MOAMMAR GADDAFI EARLIER THIS MONTH TO CLARIFY SEVERAL POINTS OF CONCERN. LAST WEEK THE LIBYAN GENERAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS EXPRESSED ITS SATISFACTION WITH A TRIAL IN A THIRD COUNTRY. BUT IT IS UP TO LIBYA'S LEADER TO MAKE THE FINAL DECISION. (SIGNED) NEB/LMK/JWH 21-Dec-98 11:44 AM EST (1644 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .