European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 22, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 a photo san unexploded american bomb is displayed in Tripoli left. At right a libyan naval officer shows journalists damage at the naval installation and Academy at Sidi balal. Libyan naval base heavily damaged in raid Tripoli Libya a . Planes heavily dam aged a naval installation which . Officials said was a commando training base during the american raid last week on reputed terrorist targets in Libya. Libyan officials sunday allowed Western reporters to see parts of Sidi Bilal naval installation which includes Libya s naval Academy in the first tour by journalists of damage to military targets during the raid. A German teacher at Sidi Bilal described the bomb ing As very reporters were not allowed inside a walled area which libyan naval instructors indicated was an underwater training facility and which Pentagon officials said was the main target of the attack against the Seaside base 10 Miles West of Tripoli. Reporters could see holes in the roofs of two buildings As Well As Many shattered windows within the walled area As their bus passed. A half dozen unshaven men dressed in a mix of uni forms and civilian clothes stood guard with automatic rifles at the Gate. Inside the base reporters saw the remains of at least four buildings which had been flattened by direct hits tuesday. Libyan officials escorting reporters claimed the Amer ican fighter bombers zeroed in on naval Academy Dormi tories the infirmary a mess Hall and several offices. They said that the air raid killed two naval cadets and injured 15, but that most of the estimated 300 cadets had been evacuated because a strike was expected. We had no air defense Here said an officer who identified himself As the Academy s commander for the past seven years. The officer who refused to give his name or rank said he had no idea of the damage inflicted on the walled area where libyans Are believed to receive training in underwater demolition and Comman do operations. He would not say what kind of activity went on in the walled area. In Academy classrooms cadets aged 15-17 posed for photographers and television Crews As they read their lessons. A student said All the cadets were arabs. One of the libyan information department escorts quickly added they Are All several cadets declined to answer questions saying they spoke Only arabic. Technical books clearly visible in the classroom were written in English. Five Days after tuesday s raid bulldozers were still scooping up rubble forming huge Mounds of shattered Concrete twisted Metal and burned Wood. Notebooks and textbooks littered the compound s roads along with broken Glass and shrapnel. Hartwig Looft an electronics teacher from Stuttgart Germany who said he had been working for the libyans for the last 2 /2 years said he heard a big bang and saw huge columns of smoke when the bombers struck. They were very accurate Looft said. Reporters also saw heavy damage to the Academy s indoor swimming Pool. There was no visible evidence of any permanent artillery or anti aircraft defences around the Academy which covered an area the size of about three football Fields near the Beach. Britons evacuated from Beirut because of slayings Beirut Lebanon a Twenty one britons who were evacuated from Kidnap plagued West Beirut because of the slay Ings of two britons and an american sailed from Lebanon monday on their Way Back to London. The evacuees boarded a boat at Jounier 12 Miles North of Beirut at mid morning for the six hour journey to the cypriot port of Warnaca to catch a flight Home. The British embassy oversaw their evacuation across the Green line from moslem West Beirut to the Christian East sector on sunday but no embassy officials were in Jounier monday to see them off. Ambassador John Gray said the evacuees were on their own. Jounier port officials said there were 33 other foreigners including two americans nine frenchmen and two irishmen aboard the boat. But Many of them were Ordinary passengers who were not fleeing Lebanon the officials said. I feel sad for leaving. There is nothing i can do at this moment said one British evacuee. Maybe one Day i can come Back. I have a Strong feeling for the the evacuation was touched off by the slaying of two kidnapped britons and one american which was followed thursday by the gunpoint abduction of British television reporter John Mccarthy. The slain hostages were american University of Beirut librarian Peter Kilburn 62, of san Francisco and British teachers Leigh Douglas 34, and Philip Padfield 40. A photo British evacuees Board a heavily guarded lebanese police bus in moslem West Beirut. The body of the librarian who was Kidnap Ped in december 1984, was returned to the United states on sunday. The three gunshot bodies were found off a tree lined Mountain Highway East of Bei rut. A stencilled note said they were killed by a group calling itself the Arab revolutionary cells in retaliation for the British supported . Air attack on Libya last tuesday. The group is believed linked to libyan backed palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal who had vowed to avenge the air raid. A total of 35 westerners left West Beirut on sunday in the evacuation organized by the British. They included 32 britons an american an irishman and a new Zea Lander. Embassy sources said some people stayed behind to wind up personal affairs such As arranging payment of rents and making Luggage shipments before leaving. Among those who left for Cyprus were 19 teachers who taught intensive English programs at the american University of Beirut. That left the Aub a University that once had More than 80 foreign teachers with Only a dozen non lebanese professors. Aub spokesman Radwan Mawlawi said the University planned to hire lebanese teachers to offset the brain Drain. Public disapproval of Beirut terrorism escalated monday with renewed criticism by Beirut newspapers and druse Leader Walid Jumblatt. The Hunters of foreigners roaming the streets of Beirut must be stopped said the pro syrian Beirut newspaper Al share. The lebanese people May soon find them selves without schools for their children if these splinter groups seeking to destroy the foundations of our civilization and culture Are not Jumblatt an Aub graduate attacked unidentified Arab countries that Hunt Down foreigners in Lebanon while providing Protection to those on their a senior shiite moslem cleric sheikh Abdul Amir Kabalan also assailed the murderous Campaign of kidnappings As a violation of islamic teaching. Kabalan who Heads the highest shiite religious court in Beirut has Long called for Tough measures to end lawlessness in West Beirut
