Lockerbie deadline `was spin'
Monday 01 March 1999 00:02 GMT
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Lockerbie deadline `was spin'
REPORTS THAT Britain and America had given Libya a 30-day deadline to hand over the two suspects in the Lockerbie bombing case were denied yesterday. Dr Jim Swire, spokesman for the British families, had initially said that the deadline was "very unhelpful". He said, yesterday, that he now believed that claims of such a deadline were media spin from New York.
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