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Show J T he Salt Lakr Tribune, A5 libb T uesdayjanuary 21, Libyan High School Sludenls Training For Possible Suicide Missions in U.S. H Michael Goldsmith Associated Ires.s Writer TRIPOLI Libya All Libyan high school students are required to undergo intensive military training that includes preparation for possible suicide missions including against the White House, the military commander of a boys' school said Monday A group of Western repot ters was taken to All Awarith High School in downtown Tripoli, where they 1 marked on their plotting board was Israel's Star of David On command, the students ran to the four truck borne launchers and went into action, simulating the firing noise by beating on the trucks with their fists, ya. Awedat said the students ir his school were not allowed to take keir Kalaini-kopistols and machine guns home with then at Soviet-designe- v night With almost perfect precision, he students dismantled ad reassembled their Kalashnikovs n less than 50 seconds. A squad of abot 60 students marched up and down im demonstration of Soviet-stylgoos. stepping. blue-berete- d watched uniformed students perforin military drills and firing exercises B.M-2with four multif,n rocket launchers One of the students was Seifeddin eldest son of Khadafy, the Col Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader who has warned that suicide squads would strike in the United States and Israel if the two ever at- tack this country. whose Seifeddin, name means "sword of the faith, seemed intimi-daiewhen presented to the reporters and made no comment. Soviet-designe- responsible for the attacks, aid he has imposed economic ranctios ordering all U S citizens and cmpa-rne- s to stop doing business witt Lib- Awedat seemed pleased with his students Their high precision led some of the reporters to question his claim that they received only two hours of military training per week, compared with 36 hours of civilian instruction. e One group plotted the firing trajec for their rocket launchers known as "Stalin organs." The rocket launchers were unarmed; the target tory Asked how many military instructors were employed at the school compared with civilian teachers, Awedat said "that is confidential. Awedat said the military training at his and all other Libyan schools was exclusively for MONDAY, JANUARY 27 8 P.M. d The reporters were not allowed to question the students individually, but the demonstration illustrated the increasing militarization of Libyan society under Khadafys rule The school's military commander, Maj. Saeed All Awedat, told reporters all Libyan secondary students girls and boys undergo two hours of military training a week as a compulsory part of their curriculum The training also includes one month during each summer vacation Asked whether the students also train for the suicide commando missions that Khadafy has threatened to launch against the United States and Israel, Awedat replied: Yes. All Libyans are training for suicide missions. We are all ready to launch such operations, even in the United States and into the White House itself. "We are ready to to carry out any order given by the leader. 1 say this not because I am an army officer, but because any Libyan would give you the same reply." He refused to discuss details of the students suicide commando training other than to say it was reserved for older age groups. Most of the 2,000 students at his school, he said, ranged "in age from 15 to 18. U.S. Libya tensions heightened after the Dec. 27 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna that left 19 people dead, including five Americans, two Israelis and four of the attackers. President Reagan says he has "irrefutable proof Khadafy assisted the Palestinian extremist group believed - i rocket launchers at the Womens et-ma- SYMPHONY HALL Military Academy in Tripoli. All Libyan high school students receive such training. SALT LAKE CITY EUREKA POWERFUL LAS VEGAS UPRIGHT VACUUM SAiKrrmUL CHAMBER S, $4900 YOU'LL LOVE IT! 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