The World - News from Aug. 14, 1988
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Lebanon’s Parliament will meet later this week to choose a successor to President Amin Gemayel who, under the constitution, cannot seek a second consecutive term. House Speaker Hussein Husseini said the parliamentary election will be held Thursday. Gemayel’s six-year term ends Sept. 23. Meanwhile, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, or Party of God, said that Syrian-backed Amal gunmen killed one of its clerics, Sheik Ali Karim, in southern Lebanon after attacking the car in which he was riding.
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