U.S. Eyes 3rd-Country Trial of Two Suspects

The United States tried a new tack in its dispute with Libya over the Lockerbie bombing, saying it was looking at how a Scottish court could sit in the Netherlands to try two Libyan suspects. Libya, under U.N. sanctions for failing to hand over the men accused of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988--a total of 270 people were killed in the aircraft and on the ground--offered the same solution years ago but met resistance from Britain and the United States. Britain on Tuesday was sticking to its position that the suspects should face trial in Scotland or the United States. But in Washington, U.S. officials defended the new plan.