The World : Priest Slain in Lebanon

A French Jesuit priest was assassinated in a Lebanese university office by a gunman using a pistol with a silencer. Police said that 47-year-old Andre Masse was shot in the head and that the gunman and two accomplices walked away. There was no claim of responsibility. The murder of Masse, director of the Sidon branch of St. Joseph University, was the first of a French national in Lebanon in a year. Meanwhile, in a period of heightened alert along the south Lebanon border, Israeli authorities reported that two suspected Arab guerrillas were killed and an Israeli soldier wounded in a clash just outside Israel’s self-declared “security zone.”