‘City’ thrives under Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — An
elaborate tunnel network under
west Beirut served as a "city
within a city" for Palestinian
guerrillas — complete with an
amusement center and torture
chamber, security sources said
Thursday
They also said that the inter
national terrorist Carlos used
the tunnels to meet with Pales
tine Liberation Organization
guerrillas
The sources said the four
mile network ran from the Sabra
and Chatilla refugee camps to
Bourj el-Barajneh next to the
airport, and was packed with
arms, forged passports and
stolen cars Other sources said
helicopters and small
submarines were hauled from
the tunnels, but that was not
confirmed
The tunnels were discovered
late last month, the sources
said.
In other Lebanese develop
ments.
U S envoy Philip Habib met in
Washington with top Reagan
administration officials to refine
a plan for the phased with
drawal of Israeli, Syrian and
Palestinian forces from Leban
on, followed by the recall of the
1,200 U S Marines in the
peacekeeping force
Israeli officials in Jerusalem,
in an apparent softening of ear
lier positions, said the Palestine
Liberation Organization could
pull out in stages with the Syrian
army, but that all PLO fighters
must be out before the last
phase of the Syrian and Israeli
pullout
Lebanese army troops arrest
ed 175 more people in west
Beirut, bringing to more than
1,000 the number seized since
last week in what the military
calls a campaign to pacify the
Moslem sector of the capital.
The Palestinians fear the drive is
to terrorize them and force them
to leave the country
Israel invaded Lebanon June
6 to rout the Palestinian guerril
las, and thousands of PLO
fighters were evacuated from
west Beirut in August Thou
sands remained, however, in
northern Tripoli and behind Sy
rian lines in eastern Lebanon’s
Bekaa Valley
Trapped sub evades
capture by Swedes
BERGA NAVAL BASE.
Sweden (AP) — A foreign sub
marine trapped for a week off
Sweden's main naval base may
have escaped Thursday or ren
dezvoused with a second sub,
military officials said.
Helicopters dropped six more
depth charges, meanwhile, and
more Swedish navy ships joined
the hunt
The Swedish navy identified
the mystery sub only as foreign
But denials by North Atlantic
Treaty Organization govern
ments that they have submar
ines in the area 20 miles south of
Stockholm led most observers
to believe the vessel was from
the Soviet bloc
Swedish newspapers said it
was either Soviet or Polish
The helicopters dropped four
depth charges in the afternoon,
then joined Swedish vessels
beyond Hors Bay where the sub
had been trapped since Friday
Vice Adm Bror Steftenson,
Sweden s new chief of staff,
said the navy may have lost
track of the mystery sub or that it
could have slipped out "There
is a possibility, we just don't
know yet, it may have left the
immediate search area," he told
a news conference
Steffenson said there were
difficulties on the technical,
tactical and geographical
levels" in the chase to force up
the intruder
He said the Baltic's shifting
waters and craggy bottom
makes it one of the world's most
difficult submarine hunting
grounds
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One security officer de
scribed the west Beirut tunnel
network as a "city within a city,"
two yards beneath the earth. He
said it was equipped with air raid
shelters, food storage rooms, an
underground prison, a torture
chamber, an amusement
center, a hospital, printing press
and radio relay station
He and the other sources said
they believed an unknown
number of refugees fleeing the
Sept 16-18 massacres of
civilians by Christian militiamen
might have been trapped in the
tunnels when grenade explo
sions blocked the exits
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