The Nation - News from Aug. 17, 1989
Citing the bombing over Scotland last years of Pan American World Airways Flight 103, Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner urged the Senate to quickly ratify a 14-year-old treaty that would increase compensation for victims of international air accidents. In a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Skinner said the bombing “serves to highlight the gross injustices that exist” because current treaty provisions limit compensation to $75,000. The Senate has wrestled with the compensation question for more than a decade.
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