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* 18 January 1984.

Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University in Beirut ( AUB ), assassinated near his office.

Had replaced AUB president David Dodge, who was kidnapped six months earlier.

A telephone message claiming to represent Islamic Jihad proclaimed: " We are responsible of the assassination of the president of AUB ... We also vow that not a single American or French will remain on this soil.

We shall take no different course.

And we shall not waver.