The World - News from May 22, 1986

Faculty at the American University of Beirut, apparently pressured by death threats against a Lebanese colleague abducted on May 7, called off a 13-day-old general strike. The decision made during an emergency faculty meeting came hours after the kidnapers of Prof. Nabil Matar, a Lebanese Christian, issued their second death threat in four days. In a statement accompanied by a color photograph of Matar, a group calling itself the Independent Movement for the Liberation of the Kidnaped described the faculty strike as a provocative act and threated to kill Matar if it was not called off.