Libya wins seat on U.N. Security Council

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Libya wins seat on U.N. Security Council

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
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UNITED NATIONS - Libya won a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.

Libya was virtually assured of election because it has been endorsed by the African group along with Burkina Faso and faced no opposition. Vietnam, which was endorsed by the Asian group, also ran unopposed. All three countries won in the first round of voting.

Costa Rica and Croatia won seats from Latin America and Eastern Europe. The Dominican Republic and the Czech Republic dropped out of the races for those two seats after they trailed in a second round of voting.

Susan Cohen, of Cape May Court House, N.J., who lost her 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, said the United States should oppose Libya's candidacy for a seat because Libyan leader Moamar Gadhafi was responsible for the attack.

"I feel that the U.S. has totally lost its moral compass," she told The Associated Press. "Gadhafi blew up an American plane."

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