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DR. & MRS. BERNARD TOFT
MIKE, KEN, ALYSSA
MR. & MRS. LEO WEBER
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happiness for
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with health and
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and friends.
RUTH & SIDNEY SIEGAN
MARION & MAX SCHAFER
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very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
RICHARD & HELEN PERGAMENT
Lebanon
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New Year
HARRY, ANDREA, JASON & STEPHANIE POTACH
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New Year
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New Year
PHYLLIS & NORM SAMSKY & RACHEL
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New Year
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
A Very Happy and Healthy
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SCOTT & ELISE SMALL
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All Our Friends
and Family.
A Very Happy and Healthy
New Year to All My Friends
STEVE, SAREE & SCOTTY HANTLER
ESTHER SILVER
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
GEORGE VINE & FAMILY
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and Family.
To All Our
Relatives
and Friends,
Our wish for a
year filled with
happiness,
health and prosperity.
SUGAR & MARC VOGEL
LAUREN, !LISSA & SONNEY
Green Valley, Nevada
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rorists choose to assume, the
groups work closely with one
another and may indeed be
cells of one larger body. One
of the seven Americans who
was briefly held by the Hez-
bollah at the time of the TWA
hijacking in June 1985 also
reportedly saw Dr. Hallak
treating captives.
The Organization of the Op-
pressed on Earth includes
Palestinians as well as
Lebanese Shi'ites, according
to Mrs. Hallak. This may ex-
plain the group's announce-
ment that it would not
release the bodies of Dr.
Hallak and the later Jewish
victims until Israel "stopped
its criminal operations" in
southern Lebanon and
withdrew from "all of the oc-
cupied territories." Another
explantion is that they did
not wish to provide evidence
that they had tortured their
victims.
Similarly, the body of
American hostage William
Buckley has never been
found. He is known to have
died in 1985 as a result of tor-
ture by Islamic Jihad.
It remains to be seen
whether Syria, which has in-
creased its direct military
presence in Beirut and which
has a somewhat strained
alliance with Iran, will be
willing and able to exercise
its influence to secure the
release of the hostages.
There is still a glimmer of
hope that Salim Jammous,
57, the secretary-general of
the Lebanese Jewish com-
munity, who was abducted
near the synagogue in West
Beirut on Aug. 15, 1984, may
be alive. It is also not known
for certain whether the
Organization of the Oppress-
ed has in fact killed Isaac
Sasson, 67, the president of
the Lebanese Jewish com-
munity. He was kidnapped on
March 31, 1985, while on his
way from the airport in West
Beirut after returning from a
business trip for the phar-
maceutical firm he directed.
Today only 60 Jews remain
in Lebanon, nearly all of
them in Christian East
Beirut. The Lebanese Jewish
community, which still
numbered 6,000 at the begin-
ning of 1967, shrank to half
that number by the end of the
year as a result of the
psychological, political and
• economic pressures generated
by the Six-Day War in the
neighboring Arab countries.
The turmoil that accom-
panied the unending civil war
which broke out in 1975 and
shattered the traditional
Lebanese climate of tolerance
prompted most Lebanese
Jews to emigrate. Their
number had dropped to less
(