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...violent death of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut [Jan. 30], is yet another source of despair for the Lebanese. Kerr was an idealist who shared with the Lebanese people the hope that Lebanon would remain the intellectual powerhouse of the Middle East. Terrorists' bullets have shattered that hope...
...Palestinian and former student of Malcolm Kerr's, I often disagreed with him. Yet he was always willing to hear about the Palestinian problem and to be objective. Very few American intellectuals understood the Middle East dilemma as well as Kerr...
Unlike Andropov, who never traveled to a country that was not under Communist control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski...
FEBRUARY 21, 1965--a barrage of assasin's bullets bombarded the speaking podium at the Audobon Ballroom in Harlem and landed in the chest and body of Malcolm X. With his death came loss, mourning and a suffering that continues still...
...Musawi, broke away to form a radical splinter group, the Islamic Amal. Musawi has since forged close links with Islamic Jihad, the Muslim extremist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. and French compounds last October, and the murder of Beirut's American University President Malcolm Kerr last month. Within the mainstream Amal, young Shi'ites have attacked occupying Israeli troops in southern Lebanon with the encouragement of pro-Khomeini Shi'ite clerics, despite pleas from the Amal's leaders for passive resistance. During last week's fighting, zealous young Amal militiamen...