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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday april 23, 1986 10 americans flee Beirut s moslem area Beirut Lebanon a ten americans who stayed in West Beirut despite the threat of kidnapping by islamic extremists fled the City s moslem sector tuesday under heavy guard. But Many other americans chose not to leave. The americans who were evacuated joined dozens of britons and other westerners who left West Beirut during the weekend for fear of being abducted by terrorists seek ing to avenge the . Air strike on Libya last week. Police said Christian and moslem militia snipers held their fire As two buses carrying the americans and six pc uploads of police rolled past the dividing Green line and into Christian East Beirut. The policemen escorted the americans through East Beirut to the . Embassy in the Christian suburb of Aukar 12 Miles North. Druse militiamen escorted the Convoy on the 15-minute drive through West Beirut. They kept the doors of their cars open during the trip and kept their fingers ready on the triggers of the Kalashnikov rifles they thrust through the doors. Drivers blared their horns. A . Embassy official said the evacuees would stay with friends in East Beirut and there were no plans to Fly them out of the country. But shortly after he spoke a . Navy helicopter was seen Landing in the embassy courtyard and taking off 10 minutes later. It could not be determined whether any evacuees were aboard. The embassy official said Many americans remained in West Beirut a lot of those who were born in Lebanon and with dual  he added there Are also those who refused to leave for various reasons. I cannot give you an exact number. We did our Job. We advised them to leave but we cannot Force them to  the evacuation began at Dawn tuesday when the americans some of them in tears began assembling at the former . Consulate in West Beirut s bin Are Issei Seaside Boulevard. Sharpshooters from Walid Jumblatt s druse militia manned rooftops overlooking approaches to the area and druse militia checkpoints were set up All around the for Mer consulate and the american University of Beirut Campus. Reporters saw six men and four women arrive separately at the Assembly spot each carrying a medium size suitcase. At least three evacuees were professors at the american University. Others worked at the College protestant fran cais the american International College and the Rashi Deen International language Center a privately owned Institute. The rest refused to talk to reporters. The exodus of westerners was touched off by the slay Ings of kidnapped american librarian Peter Kilburn and two British teachers and the abduction of British television cameraman John Mccarthy. Kilburn 62, of san Francisco and 34-year-old Leigh Douglas and 40-year-old Peter Padfield were found shot to death along a tree lined Mountain Highway East of Beirut. Next to their bodies was a note saying they had been killed in retaliation for the raid on Libya. The note said the Arab revolutionary cells a group believed linked to palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had killed them. Brother from Page 1 living in West Berlin or if he had been employed there. Hasi can be held indefinitely until police decide whether to press charges. Hindu i 31, also was arrested on Fri Day a Day after his Irish Girlfriend was stopped by Elai Security guards at Heath Row Airport As she tried to Board a Tel Aviv bound jumbo Jet with a bomb hidden in her bag. Scotland Yard said the woman did not know she was carrying a bomb and she was released after police questioned her. British police say Hindawi is also a palestinian thought to be from Jordan. West Berlin sources who declined to be identified said monday they suspect the surnames of the two men differed on their identity documents because the papers carried by the Man in London May be false. Manfred Ganschow the Berlin police official heading the investigation into the bombing said the Man arrested in Berlin had an identification card saying he was a stateless palestinian  Ganschow said the Man was formally booked sunday after about 100 witnesses to the bombing saw him in police lineups. It was the first arrest reported in the investigation by a special 100-member com Mission of Berlin and . Military police. The Hamburg based Bild newspaper said the palestinian was carrying sketches of nightclubs restaurants and other Berlin spots popular with americans when he was Salt ii from Page 1 purity Council memorandum was de scribed As tentative in the sense that Reagan is sending two envoys to consult with allies in Asia and Western Europe and will also solicit the views of Congress before making a formal announcement. The . Total of multiple warhead mis Siles now stands at 1,198, just two below the limit set in the treaty signed by then presi Dent Carter and the late soviet Leader Leo nid Brezhnev in Vienna. It was the last major arms control agreement by the two superpowers setting limits on various categories of Long Range nuclear weapons. Reagan denounced the pact in his Campaign for the presidency in 1980 As fatally  in office however he promised that the United states would not undercut its pro visions provided the soviets also observed the treaty. The White House press office issued a written statement that said the president has begun consultations with the allies and Congress on his tentative  the statement by spokesman Larry Speakes said that the substance of those consultations Are confidential and that no final decision had been taken or would be taken until they were completed. We will not comment on the substance of the consultations at this time Speakes said. He said the United states would consider its Security needs and a threat posed by the soviet Union in making a judgment. Edward l. Rowny a senior adviser left sunday for Tokyo to meet with japanese leaders. He will go on to South Korea China and Canada. Paul h. Nitze meanwhile was flying tuesday to London. After seeing British officials he planned to make stops in West Germany Italy France Belgium and the Netherlands. Nitze also will Brief the nato Council while in Brussels. The Trident is due to begin sea trials May 20. Its 24 missiles would put the United states above the ceiling of 1,200 missiles with multiple warheads set by the 1979 treaty unless older missiles were destroyed. Most of the president s advisers including defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger urged him to permit the . Total to sur pass the ceiling As a response to alleged soviet violations. Rowny Cia director William Casey and . Arms control director Kenneth Adelman All lined up with Weinberger. Only two senior advisers Secretary of state George Shultz and Nitze recommended that the United states maintain its policy of not undercutting the treaty. Nato sea exercise will begin thursday Naples Italy a ships from Italy Turkey Britain and the United states will take part in a routine exercise in the Mediterranean starting thursday nato announced monday. The announcement said the month Long exercise deterrent Force 1-86, will include training in most areas of naval warfare communications seamanship and replenishment at sea. 5 accused of defacing upper Heyford Falls by j. King Cruger . Bureau Banbury England five anti nuclear weapons protesters have been charged with criminal damage for painting two f 111 aircraft at nearby Raf upper Heyford late monday night. The women four britons and a French citizen who All gave the women s peace Camp at Raf Greenham common eng land As their address were refused bail at a magistrates court hearing tuesday and were sent to London s Holloway prison where they will be confined until a hearing april 30. The women plus a sixth woman who was not charged tuesday in connection with the incident were apprehended on the base at about 11 30 . Monday by air Force Security police after allegedly painting two full aircraft with symbols and slogans said a ministry of defense spokesman in London. He said the women were handed Over to ministry of defense police who arrested them. Cuts had been made monday night in the Security Fence at Raf upper Heyford said it. Col. Doug Kennett 3rd air Force spokesman at Raf Mildenhall England. He said the defaced planes were Falls and were not any of the ef-111 Raven aircraft from the base that were used in last week s raids against Libya. Expel from Page 1 tween the United states and Libya in the Gulf of Sidra Tripoli radio broadcast a Telephone Call from Massoud in which he said he and his libyan classmates in Brit Ain were offering themselves As suicide squads against America and its  British authorities reacted by ordering the libyan cadets who Are being trained to Fly for libyan Arab airlines to be barred from flying Solo. Massoud was the Only one of the Esti mated 250 libyan aviation engineering and technical trainees in Britain to be arrested the Home office said. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher questioned in parliament said we Are considering further matters about libyan pilots in this country and any further actions we can  she also indicated she would have liked stronger common Market measures. The european Community has gone further than it agreed before. We would have liked a lot More to be done and we must consider How much further to go  arrested. Manfred Kittlaus the Berlin police chief denied that draft sketches of Public places were seized but he did not elaborate. . Officials said intercepted messages to and from the libyan embassy in East Berlin proved libyan involvement in the bombing. Chancellor Helmut Kohl also said later that Germany had hard evidence that the libyan embassy in East Berlin the capital of communist East Germany directed the blast. A week after the Berlin blast German television quoted Western intelligence sources As saying libyan Leader col. Moa mar khad Afy used a palestinian extremist group for the attack so he would not be blamed. In Britain police were also questioning two other Arab men about the foiled at tempt to blow up the israeli jumbo Jet with 388 passengers and Crew. A third Man arrested in the Case was freed without charge. Temperatures april 21 l 50 46 33 48 51 55 48 43 49 45 42 50 65 48 36 44 44 56 42 35 48 23 26 49 72 62 43 63 39 59 h 77 76 35 67 57 66 73 61 83 65 49 59 76 60 40 52 53 70 67 43 49 41 44 60 86 80 52 79 45 92 Albany Albuquerqu Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston . Charleston . Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas fort Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas l 49 65 46 50 71 32 46 50 51 62 46 33 61 55 45 40 46 46 59 41 43 68 45 58 53 51 51 54 56 37 h 64 88 57 63 60 46 59 79 62 73 67 46 84 69 55 48 75 58 74 82 54 80 71 77 75 56 63 94 68 64 Little Rock los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Bea Chmels St. Paul Nashville new Orleans new Yor Norfolk Oklahoma Cit Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Pittsburgh Portland Maine Portland Ore. Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis is. Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast for wednesday mostly Cloudy to Cloudy skies with rain showers in the North and rain in the South. There will also be isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers. High temperatures in 50s to lower 60s, lows in the mid to upper 40s. Sunset wednesday 8 32, Sunrise thursday 6 14. Outlook for thursday Little change in weather or temperatures. Temperatures recorded tuesday 4am 4pm 4am 4pmadana, p 50 79 Amsterdam m 43 54 Copenhagen m 41 46 Athens p 55 66 Frankfurt m 48 46aviano, p Berlin p Bremerhaven Brussels p provided by . _1_ 50 57 52 52 m 50 52 45 54 det. 13, London r Madrid m Munich m Paris p Rome p 7th weather 43 48 46 54 46 52 43 55 50 66 so Graben other worldwide temperatures High Low 79 52 50 41 Cairo f Dublin f Helsinki r Jerusalem Lisbon r Montreal r Moscow cl39 36 Oslo s Toronto cd 59 48 Vancouver r supplied by the associated press far cd Cloudy a partly Cloudy a mostly Cloudy a Rains Snow. High Low 57 48 52 45 36 30 50 36 54 48  
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