LIBYA. PARENTS OF AIDS-INFECTED CHILDREN DEMAND 10 MILLION DOLLARS

the families of hundreds of Libyan children infected with the AIDS virus were demanding 10 million dollars for each child in compensation, Bulgarian television reported.
The sum matched the compensation paid by Libya to families of the 270 victims of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am Am flight over Locherbie in Scotland.
Idriss Lagha, a lawyer for the families, told Bulgarian reporters that five Bulgarian nurses accused of deliberately infecting 426 children with the AIDS virus could have their sentences shortened if the money were paid.
The five nurses and a Palestinian doctor had been in jail for seven years and had been condemned to death for deliberately inoculating the children, 51 of whom had died, with infected vaccine.
Lagha said that if the families were compensated they could ask for lighter sentences which might permit the nurses to serve their time in Bulgarian prisons.