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The World - News from Dec. 25, 1985

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A Maronite Catholic bishop was injured when he fought off unidentified gunmen who tried to kidnap him in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, police reported. Bishop George Iskandar, the Maronite bishop of Zahlah, answered a knock on the gate of his bishopric and was assaulted by gunmen who tried to drag him into a car. Resisting, he was pistol-whipped and left unconscious in the street, police said. Zahlah is the main Christian town in the predominantly Shia Muslim Bekaa Valley. The incident followed a wave of kidnapings of Christians by Shias in West Beirut.

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