BEIRUT, Lebanon — An American held hostage in Lebanon for 17 months was identified Friday as one of three Westerners Killed by pro-Libyan terrorists in retaliation for U.S air raids on Libya and Britain’s role in providing bases for the US, Attack.
The American was identified as Mr, Peter Kilbum, 62. He was working as a librarian in the American University.
WASHINGTON President Reagan denied Friday that U.S bombing raids on Libya were intended to kill Moammar Khadafy and the administration insisted its aim was not the radical leader’s ouster, But the State Department stood behind a statement by Secretary of State Shultz that a coup ‘would be “all to the good.”
TRIPOLI, Libya Angry mourners shouting anti-American slogans snaked through the jittery streets of Tripoli Friday to a hallowed cemetery where 20 people killed in the US, attack on Libya were buried as martyrs bound for paradise, Libyan officials said the victims lived in a residential neighborhood.
NAIROBI, Kenya More than 170 Americans were evacuated from Sudan to Kenya Friday after a US. Embassy employee was shot in the head following US, air strikes against Libya earlier this week. The evacuees were flown into the Kenyan capital; Libya has asked the 12-nation European Community Friday to mediate a “peaceful solution” to its tense conflict with the United States. But a Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman in the Netherlands said they had not received any official request from Libya.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa President Pieter Botha, adi ting whites “went too far” with certain apartheid measures, announced 2 general amnesty Friday for violators of the country’s “pass laws.” But Botha endorsed segregation and denied that white-minority groups in South Africa were racists.
BONN, West Germany The text of a secret “Star Wars” accord between Bonn and Washington appeared in a newspaper Friday and the government said the leak was possibly a treasonous act. In it, a U.S vow giving equal treatment and patent protection to-German firms appeared weaker than had been previously announced.
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