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Services of Mead Data Central PAGE. 7, (c) 8? The New York Times, April . 1987 At 2 A.M., the hour last year that American jets hit targets in Tripoli and Benghazi, the colonel's eldest son, Saif el-Eslam, took the microphone dressed in a red sweater, a white jacket and blue pants. It was not clear whether the colors were intended as 2 parody. Already an assured public speaker, the teen-ager promised that if the American planes came again, ‘‘we will destroy them.’ ‘'We welcome American blacks and Indians in order that they will attack the American imperialism inside America,'' he said in Arabic, which a Libyan translated into English. Tour of Unrepaired House Before gathering to hear the speeches, the conference delegates and foreign reporters were ushered through the colonel’s unrepaired house. The house, still strewn with damaged furniture, showed touches of organized Gisarray. Yellow ropes cordoned off the rooms giving visitors the impression of touring a museum. The courtyard rally was beamed live by satellite to the United States in what Libyan officials described as a two-way television hookup. Live pictures of a pro-Gaddafi crowd in Lafayette Park in front of the White House could be seen on a television screen at the back of the speaker's platform but were largely ignored. {In Washington, images of the Tripoli rally could be seen for about 20 minutes and the crowd chanted ‘‘'Long live @addafi!'' Washington Talk, page B8.2_ At an afternoon session of the ‘'peace conference,'' David Dellinger, the antiwar campaigner, thanked the Libyans for the ‘‘warath of their welcome.'' Also in the American delegation was Br. Lenora 8. Fulani, the New Alliance Party's candidate for Sovernor ef Mierore scare yer eon aliy of the Sev. : . 'A Canadian journalist attending the conference was found dead Tuesday morning at his hotel. Me was identified as Cristoph Lehmann-Halens, a 31-year-old reporter for Southam News. The diplomat who takes care of Canadian affairs here said the body had been found on the sidewalk, apparently after a fall from the 30-foot roof of the hotel. He said he had been told by Canadian delegates that the Libyan police termed the death an accident. ; The Tripoli press today said the Canadian had committed suicide after seeing the damage done by the American bombing. A senior diplomat from the Canadian Embassy in Rome arrived here today to look into the death. SUBJECT: DEMONSTRATIONS AND RIOTS; UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS an my rz ae ee NAME: PERLEZ, JANE: GADDAFI, GEOGRAPHIC: LIBYA eigean MUAMMAR EL- (COL) eerie on eee oe NR EI etn