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The World - News from March 5, 1986

All Palestinians who sought Israeli appointment as mayors in the occupied West Bank have changed their minds after the assassination of Zafer Masri, the moderate Palestinian mayor of Nablus, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said. Masri, slain Sunday, was the apparent victim of Arab extremists. Meanwhile, Israeli troops wounded a Palestinian youth in the leg during a stone-throwing incident in the Nablus marketplace.

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