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...case within the Syrian Jewish community that has received the greatest international attention is that of the Swed brothers. Eli, 31, and Selim, 51, were arrested in 1987 on suspicion of traveling to Israel while abroad. For two years, Syrian officials refused to acknowledge whether the brothers were dead or alive and not until 1990 were they allowed regular visits with their families...
After announcing Moawad's murder on television in a voice breaking with emotion, Prime Minister Selim Hoss, an American-trained economist who has survived several assassination attempts, worked with Hussein Husseini, the speaker of the parliament, to reconvene the legislature and select a President. "Each one of us is Rene Moawad," said Husseini. "We all have the absolute duty to pursue the peace process until the salvation of the country...
...September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
...assassinated last week, in the explosion of a bomb aboard his military helicopter, Rashid Karami, 65, had served ten times as Lebanon's Prime Minister. The country's Maronite Christian President Amin Gemayel -- whose brother Bashir had been killed by a bomb in 1982 -- quickly named another Sunni Muslim, Selim Hoss, as acting Prime Minister. Suspects in the murder ranged from Christian Phalangists to Shi'ite radicals. At week's end Parliament Speaker Hussein Husseini, the government's ranking Shi'ite Muslim, resigned to protest the killing...
...camp commander in TV's forever rerunning Hogan's Heroes. Away from reel life, Werner Klemperer is anything but a Dummkopf. This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; next spring he will...