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The Lighthouse.............    Association
Assyrophile de France & Zowaa
Good Morning Bet-Nahrain...    Assyrian
Village Bombarded in Turkish Attacks
               
List of 24 Assyrian POWs
               
Iran Denies Collaboration with PKK
               
Lebanon Urges Embargo Against Turkey
Surfs Up...................    "AAS has
stonewalled my request..."
Surfers Corner.............    A New Assyrian
Magazine in Canada
               
The Khabour Relief Fund
News Digest................    Chicago
to Finance AANF Headquarters Building
               
AssyriaVision TV Goes Online
               
Assyrian Church History Course in Chicago
Calendar of Events.........    Church
History Class in Chicago: June 25
               
NEC Meeting: July 19
Entracte...................    No New
Entries
Intelligentsia.............    Classes
& Regular Meetings
Assyrian Surfing Posts.....    A Biography
of the ZENDA Reader:  Paul Newey
Pump up the Volume.........    Marble
& Tiles
Back to the Future.........    From Bloody
Coups to Forced Unifications
Literatus..................    Amid the
Ruins
This Week in History.......    "Athra"
is Published in Beirut
Bravo......................    Anwar Oshana
The Directory..............    News Sources
Bshena.....................    ATR &
Canada
Salute.....................    Firas &
Chris
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AN OPEN LETTER TO ASSYRIAN ASSOCIATIONS AND MAGAZINES
        From: 
Association Assyrophile de France
We think if our duty to inform you about our relationships with the ZOWAA Party. Our first contact with that movement dates back to April 1993 when a member Mikhael of the ZOWAA delegations that had come to Paris, took the trouble to pay us a visit, and this, in spite of "advice" from his entourage urging him not to go to Toulouse because there were "no worthwhile" Assyrians there- even though his cousin is the treasurer of our Association...
At the end of his visit, the "Association Assyrophile de France" decided to immediately had over to his own hands a large sum of money as a token of our solidarity with our fellow-Assyrians in the North of Iraq. After that we regularly send (each month)to the ZOWAA representative in Paris a sum of money significant enough considering our small number. Then our Chairman, Joseph Rayes, was commissioned by our Association to go to North of Iraq, in order to evaluate the situation. For that trip to be more fruitful, our chairman got the written support from the Toulouse City Hall, the R.P.R. (Jacques Chirac's Party) along with that of other influential groups. Strengthened by those written pledges of support, Joseph Rayes made a first trip to the North with a group of Assyrians from France. On this occasion, he handed over to ZOWAA Secretary General, Ninos Betyo, the above mentioned letters of moral support.
To be precise our Chairman made some statements of encouragement along with the promises that he would return to the North in the company of a French politician, along with a large sum of money and medical supplies. He also pledged to publish an article in the French press in which the name of ZOWAA would be mentioned for the first time in France. Joseph Rayes recalls that on this occasion his interlocutors did not believe his promises because, as ZOWAA put it, many had made vain promises to them before. In spite of that tepid welcome, Joseph Rayes, moved by the plight of Assyrians in the North, who count on the support of their brothers in the dispersion worldwide, did return to the North in full accordance with all his promises. He was notably accompanied by the Vice-Mayor of Toulouse, a well-known physician, Professor Pierre Puel...Joseph handed over to Ninos Betyo a full-page article taken from a French newspaper with the very picture of Ninos Betyo on it! We should also mention the delivery of two large suitcases full of antibiotics and anti-inflammatories...
In July 1995, Joseph Rayes went to Syria and took the opportunity to meet one of ZOWAA leaders, the one called Michael who warmly welcomed him and expressed his frustration of having met many Assyrians who had promised him to help him to go to Europe and the United States, all in vain. Joseph Rayes accepted to take the problem in charge and within a month managed to get a visa to France for that leader and his family. During his visit, that very same Mikhael was handed over by our chairman letters of support from Jacques Chirac (President of France) and other important people. Later on Ninos Betyo came to France to plead the Assyrian cause to Assyrians in France...He did all he could to ignore our Association and moreover he even tried to meet Professor Puel without us...It so happened that, to the dismay of the French authorities Ninos Betyo had an unspeakable and irresponsible behavior when he insisted to Mr. Puel that we should not be present during the interview.
During that interview, we asked him the causes of his unfair attitude towards us. He was utterly unable to give the least trace of an answer; he spent the entire interview looking down shamefully, uttering one word...As a result of the disappointing (to say the least) attitude of ZOWAA Secretary General, Joseph Rayes directly called Mr. Yonadam Yossep (Yacu) in the North to report to him Ninos Betyo's behavior in France. Yossep apologized profusely at hearing about the Secretary General's ungrateful and indefensible attitude. As we mentioned our aim to inform the Assyrian Associations worldwide of our bitter disappointment towards Ninos Betyo's behavior in France, Mister Yacu begged us not to spread the news, and asked us to write a report to him, promising that he would set the record straight. We have sent him a report and have so far received no feedback.
Following these events, the other leader, called Mikhael, whom we managed to get a visa to France, was eventually granted, mostly thanks to our lobbying at the American Embassy in Paris, a visa to the States for him and his family. Such was the state of our collaboration with ZOWAA when, in January 1997, we heard about Mr. Yacu's visit to France. The latter, to our own utter surprise and frustration, behaved even worse that Ninos Betyo!!
As a conclusion, the aim of this letter is to inform our fellow Assyrians worldwide of the mean and paltry attitude and proceedings carried out in France by the highest Assyrian authorities of the North of Iraq. This is only a brief summary of the events. We are holding at the disposal of any Association or Magazine, written documents purporting our statements in this letter along with other information concerning our efforts to help the representatives of North Iraq Assyrians, efforts to alleviate our brothers, sufferings, and those very same representatives' ungrateful attitude towards our Association. We have decided to keep you informed, out of despair of ever finding fair and responsible Assyrian leaders, and because we think it is our duty to be vigilant as to the quality of elected leaders chosen to represent the Assyrians in the North and abroad...Long Live Assyrians!
A.A.F. Executive Board
[For more information contact AAF at 81-09-98-23 or fax
to 81-57-59-58.
ZOWAA:  Assyrian Democratic Movement  ("zowaa"
= Movement)
North:  Northern Iraq; under the protection of the
United Nation forces.
Mikhael: Mikhael Jajou; currently residing in Chicago,
Illinois.]
 
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       ASSYRIAN VILLAGE
IN NORTHERN IRAQ TARGET OF TURKISH ATTACKS
(ZNAD) According to a report received from the Assyrian Democratic Organization (Mtakasa) last night at ZENDA's European desk, the Assyrian village of Dori in the Barwari region of Northern Bet-Nahrain was the target of massive Turkish military bombardment on 3 June. Several people were killed and a large portion of the village which included Church of Mar Gewargis was hit. This Church was once before the target of Saddam's army in 1978. The church building was re-built with the support of the Assyrian Democratic Organization in Germany and the project was then carried out by the Christian Aid Program in Iraq (CAPNI).
LIST OF 24 ASSYRIAN POWs RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY IN IRAN
As the Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988, after 8 years of near-complete annihilation of the two countries industrial infrustructures, many soldiers from either countries remained as prisoners of war. In the following nine years hundreds and sometimes thousands have been exchanged or simply released on the occasion of a general amnesty or a humanitarian gesture of good will. This year 724 Iraqi soldiers were released by the government of Iran of whom 24 were identified by the officials of the International Red Cross as Assyrian. The following is a complete list of these 24 Iraqi-Assyrian POWs who have been in captivity since 1988. For more information you may contact the Assyrian Universal Alliance office in Chicago: (773) 338-2200 or the International Red Cross in Europe or the United States:
1.    Isho Issa Toma       
24724 (Red Cross Number)
2.    Johnson Beshamir       
28600
3.     Moen Gorgis Abdolahad   
6856
4.    Ammer Petrous Giwargis   
959
5.    Samir Younan Habib       
28235
6.    Gorgis Jona Benyamin       
317
7.    Nabil Showkat Shamoun   
37841
8.    Dawood Ishaya Elia       
27531
9.    Marhand Freq Razotie       
7343
10.    Valaid John Antwan       
28217
11.    Najie Ishoo Matty       
31559
12.    Safa Yousif Shamoun       
28217
13.    Valid Najib Nasser       
13598
14.    Akram Denha Hormiz       
30166
15.    Ziyad Habib Toma       
22376
16.    Nael Nasser Gandoor       
51162
17.    Shamoon Sareh Bacous       
25983
18.    Kayzak Malko Narkis       
11029
19.    Saleem Yousif Yousif       
41630
20.    Yousif Zakarya Mansour   
2426
21.    Manzar Matty Najm       
9183
22.    Basel Naim Aziz       
24718
23.    Amer Louis Joboury       
32010
24.    Shmoel Yalda Abdou       
5983
 
IRAN DENIES COLLABORATION WITH THE PKK
(ZNUP: Ankara) Iranian deputy Foreign Minister Alaedin
Boroujerdi denied that Iran was supporting Turkish Kurd separatist rebels.
Boroujerdi with a message from President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to
Turkish President Suleyman Demirel, expressed concern over Turkey's continuing
military operation in northern Iraq against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers
Party, or PKK. Iran, in common with Turkey's other Muslim neighbors, has
protested the large-scale incursion in northern Iraq, which began May 14,
and urged that the troops be withdrawn. Turkey maintains Iran was supporting
the outlawed PKK, which has been fighting a guerrilla war since 1984 in
an attempt to establish an
independent Kurdish state in southeast Turkey. Turkish
General Fevzi Turkeri commented that Iran was giving "every kind of support
to build a regime in Turkey" based on Sharia, or Islamic law.  He
said arrested militants have testified that Iranian diplomats in Turkey
have helped them with money and in getting passports.
LEBANON'S PARLIAMENT URGES ECONOMIC EMBARGO OF TURKEY
(ZN-Xinhua: Beirut) The foreign affairs committee of Lebanon's
parliament has called on all Arab countries to sever their economic ties
with Turkey because of the current Turkish incursion in northern Iraq.
The 18-member committee also denounced what it called a Turkish-Israeli
coalition sponsored by the United States. It said in a statement that the
committee held a meeting in presence of Lebanese Foreign Minister Farez
Boueiz to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East "in light
of the Turkish-Israeli coalition" sponsored by the U.S. and its dangerous
reaction. The statement claimed
that the coalition was aimed at what it called getting
water and territory and imposing blockade upon Iraq, Syria and Lebanon
as well as other Arab states. The document, issued at the end of the meeting,
noted that the Turkish-Israeli coalition wants to achieve these goals "by
the Turkish incursion into northern Iraq and by the Israeli military escalation
in south Lebanon and an attempt to impose a solution of surrender" upon
the Arab-Israeli conflict. "The committee also denounces the Turkish incursion
into northern Iraq because it threatens the Arab national security and
because the means which Turkey is using has gone beyond the limit of solving
the Kurdish problem to the extent of inflaming a powder barrel in the region,"
the statement added. The Turkish government troops have intruded northern
Iraq since mid-May at the pretext of eliminating members of the separatist
Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). On the question of convening a regional economic
conference, which is due in Doha, Qatar, in November, the committee called
for an Arab economic conference "in order to foil the plot of establishing
an "Israeli-dominated Middle East market."
 
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"I think one message per issue is great idea..."
Samir Younan
Toronto, Canada
"According to the last Zenda edition, Dr. Lincoln Malik has offered to submit a public report on behalf of ADM, which will include an account of the ADM congress he recently attended in north Iraq. I very much look forward to reading about this meeting, and to learn how are fellow Assyrians are holding up in the face of a very unstable political situation. At the same time, I believe it would be of great interest to many Assyrians to learn what the Assyrian Aid Society (the non-profit spinoff of ADM) plans for the money left to it by the Will of Mr. Adams. I have attempted more than once to obtain some indication about this, but the Assyrian Aid Society has stonewalled my request, and has provided unresponsive answers. It is my conviction that ADM (and AAS) need to reconsider the negative effect on their credibility when they duck some very simple questions. The Assyrian people have a right to know. The leaders of ADM and AAS who live in sunny California need to consider the effect on the image of the organization. The sooner they come up with some candid answers, the sooner we can get on with it."
Francis Sarguis
Santa Barbara
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ZENDA readers are invited to respond to the following
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directly writing to the author(s) or sending a reply
to ZENDA.
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-A message from the Assyrian Democratic Organization - America/Canada-
To assist in the completion of the Water Project in the Khabour Region of Syria for the Assyrian families who remain in dire need of financial assistance please send your tax-deductible donations to:
Khabour Relief Fund
Account Number:  10-58-800509-2
Liberty Federal Saving
5700 North Lincoln
Chicago, Illinois  60659
 
-NEW ASSYRIAN MAGAZINE IN HAMILTON-
The Shamiram Assyrian Association Inc. of Canada is now
preparing to
produce their first Assyrian magazine in Hamilton, Ontario. 
The organization
named their first Assyrian magazine "The Truth". 
Shamasah Moshi Sarkis is the most outspoken for the reform and development
of Assyrian schools, and social issues.  For further infromation,
please contact Shamasha Moshi Sarkis at ai313@freenet.hamilton.on.ca .
Ashur Simon Malek
Ontario, Canada
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CITY OF CHICAGO WILL HELP FINANCE THE BUILDING OF THE AANF HEADQUARTERS
(ZNDA: Chicago) According to Mr. Isaac Toma, Chairman of the Assyrian American National Federation's Headquarters Committee, the members of the City of Chicago's planning department have agreed to assist in the financing of a headquarters for the AANF in the city of Chicago. The financing of this three million dollars project will involve a long-term tax exempt bonds with the low rate of up to 3%. AANF will make no payments during the first two years of its financing, while it is expected that at the end of this "grace period" the City of Chicago will be repaid in full through a bank loan. The property under consideration is located on West Pratt Avenue in the north side of Chicago, covering a 5.5 acres area.
ASSYRIAVISION TV GOES ONLINE - LIVE!
(ZNDA: Ceres) The first Assyrian television network has reached another milestone in its continued line of successful projects: KBSV-TV can now be viewed online. With only a web browser and a minimum of 28.8 modem-access it is possible to view the AssyriaVision TV programming, aired from Ceres/Modesto, California, live as seen by thousands of its viewers in this Central Californian community. KBSV-TV is sponsored by the Bet-Nahrain Inc. and spearheaded by Dr. Sargon Dadesho, Chairman of the Assyrian National Congress and the editor of Bet-Nahrain Magazine. To view KBSV-TV go to http:\\www.betnahrain.org and follow the instructions. The task of bringing KBSV-TV online was completed through the efforts of Albert Gabrial, a founding member of the Assyrian Community Networking Conference and the creator of Nineveh Online (www.nineveh.com).
ASSYRIAN CHURCH HISTORY CLASS IN CHICAGO
(ZNAA: Chicago) The Assyrian Academic Society in conjunction with North Park College in Chicago will offer a course entitled "A New Exposure to the History of Eastern Christianity." The class will be taught by AbdulMassih Saadi, a PhD Candidate in Syriac Studies, from 25 June through 13 August 1997 (see CALENDAR OF EVENTS). According to a printed advertisement the Course will "survey the history of Eastern Churches within its cultural, philosophical, social and political context. For more information see http://aas.net/course1.gif .
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Jun 13-16    Edvin Takhsh's Art Exhibition
        Benjamin Juwelier
           
Taunus str. 9
           
Wiesbaden, Germany
        8:00 pm
        No admission
charge
        Champaign
reception will follow
Jun 16        Poetry
Night
        Featuring
Ninous Aho and Yosip Bet-Yosip
        BETA: 
20000 Almaden Road
        San Jose,
California
        Cultural Committee
of the Assyrian American Association of SJ
        7:30 pm
Jun 21        "The
Assyrian Legacy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
        North Park
College
        Center for
Middle Eastern Studies at North Park College
              
Magnuson Campus Center
        Alumni Dining
Hall
        3225 W. Foster
Avenue
        Chicago, IL
60625-4895
        Phone: 773-244-5785/6
        Pre-registration
$15
           
$10 - For Students
           
$20 - Registration after 6-14-97
           
Registration Includes Lunch
        Main Speakers
           
Dr. Mark Mkrdichian
           
Peter Jasim
           
Abdul Massih Saadi
           
Reverend Sarhad Jammo
           
Dr. David Bundy
           
Dr. Gabriel Yonan
           
Robert DeKelaita
           
Bishop Mar Bawai Soro
        An Assyrian
Academic Society Event
        http://www.aas.net
Jun 25-    Syriac Church History Course
Aug 13        "A New
Exposure to the History of Eastern Christianity
        Instructor: 
AbdulMasih Saadi
        North Park
College
        Carlson Tower,
Room C43
        3225 West
Foster Avenue
        Chicago, Illinois
        7:00-9:00
pm; weekly (9 weeks)
        Registration
Fee:  $ 80:00 (tax-deductible)
        Tuition reduced
based on financial need.
        1-800-454-8979
or email history@aas.net
        Sponsored
by the Assyrian Academic Society of Chicago
Jul 1-Mar 8    In the Presence of the Gods:
Art from Ancient Sumer
        The Smart
Museum of Art
        5550 South
Greenwood Avenue
        Chicago
        Free Admission
Jul 7        XLIV Rencontre
Assyriologique Internationale
        International
Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Arch.
        Venice, Italy
Jul 19-20    National Exectutive Committee
Meeting
        Assyrian American
National Federation
        Sponsored
by the Assyrian American Social Club of Michigan
        Quality Inn
        One West Nine
Mile
        Hazel Park,
Michigan  48030
        (313) 399-5800
        Rooms are
reserved at the rate of $39.95 plus tax.
 
 
Jul 20        A Concert
by the Assyrian Violinist, David Yonan
        Mathaeikirchstrasse
1
        Musikinstrumenten
Museum, Curt-Sachs Saal
        Berlin
        11:00 am
Aug 26-Sep 2    Assyrian American National
Convention
        Hyatt Regency
Dearborn
        Fairlane Town
Center
        Detroit, Michigan
        All Single,double,triple,quad
rooms: $95 per day
        Reservations:
(313) 982-6880
        Reservations
must be made by August 7.
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June 28    Welcome Home Party
        Entertainer: 
Ashur Sargis
        AAA of Southern
California
        5901 Cahuenga
Blvd
        North Hollywood,
California
July 12    A Night Under the Stars: 
Romance, Dance, & Fine Dining
        Open Bar,
Dinner, Dessert, & complimentary valet parking
        Entertainers: 
Franco and the Stars
        Location: 
AAA of San Jose BETA (Social Building)
        San Jose,
California
        7:00 pm
        $45.00 per
person
        For reservations
contact Caroline Nasseri at (408) 268-7990
        Tickets will
not be sold at the door
 
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CHICAGO    Assyrian Athletic Club Soccer
Development Program
        Ages 7-14
        7:45-9:45
pm
        Mondays
        Warren Park
Gymnasium
        Western Avenue
& Devon Street
HARVARD     1997-98 Syriac Classes
Taught by Dr. J.F. Coakley
UNIVERSITY
        Elementary
Syriac
        Instructor: 
J. F. Coakley
        Basic Syriac
grammar and syntax with selected readings from
        the Syriac
Bible and other early texts.
        Readings in
Syriac I
        Historical
and theological texts, and early poetry
        Readings in
Syriac II
        Special attention
to exegetical texts and to reading        
manuscripts.
NORTH         
Assyrian Boy Scouts
HOLLYWOOD     Assyrian American Association
of Southern California
             
Assyrian Club
             
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
              
North Hollywood, California
             
9:30am  to 12:30pm
        Sundays
              
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
             
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
          
Assyrian Student Union
         
California State University, Northridge
           
Assyrian American Association of Southern California
         
Assyrian Club
          
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
             
North Hollywood, California
             
6:00pm
             
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
           
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
SAN JOSE    Nisibin School
        Assyrian Language
Classes
        Ages 5-14
        10:00-1:00
pm
        Saturdays
        AAA of San
Jose BETA
        20000 Almaden
Road
        Assyrian Language
Classes (Adults)
        Taught by
Dr. Ashur Moradkhan
        Sundays
        7:00-9:00
pm
        AAA of San
Jose BETA
        Citizenship
Classes
        Mondays &
Tuesdays
        7:00 pm
        AAA of San
Jose BETA
        20000 Almaden
Road
        Maestro Nebu
Issabey's Nineveh Choir Practice
        AAA of San
Jose BETA
        8:00 pm
        Thursdays
TORONTO    Nisibis School
              
10:30-1:30
        Saturdays
            
The Church of the East
             
Toronto, Canada
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It's 1956 and Chicago is swarming in corruption. One man is not willing to compromise, our very own ZENDA reader, Paul Davis Newey. Find out about the fascinating story of his bout with crime, the criminals, and the Machine.
The Memoirs of a Stret Agent By Richard Lindberg
 
           
http://www.ipsn.org/newey.html
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English Modern Assyrian
        Marble        
shee/sha    [M]
        Tiles           
Qar/mee/deh    [P]  (Q as in Qatdoo, "Cat")
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F = Feminine     M = Masculine     
P = Plural
 
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B.C. (745)  In a bloody coup the Assyrian royal
family is eliminated and the governor of Calah becomes the new king of
Assyria.  He later called himself Tiglath-Pileser III and proved himself
as the most visionary military leader of the New Assyrian Kingdom.
<<  The Ancient Assyrians, Healy & McBride 
>>
 
A.D. (987) The Nestorian Patriarch is appointed by the Caliph against the wishes of the bishops. In an effort to unite the Christian minorities in the Islamic kingdom three quarters of a century later the Caliph put all the Jacobite and Melkite bishops under the Nestorian Patriarch.
<< The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia, Browne >>
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AMID THE RUINS
 
In 1898 I stood before two marble monuments of winged
Assyrian lions amid the ruins of ancient Nineveh; but on a second visit,
four years later, I noticed that one of them had been broken to pieces.
The miller close by wanted some stone for the repair of his mill, so he
gave a bribe to the Turkish guardian, and the marble lion, worth hundreds
of pounds, was demolished for a few piastres.
 
 
<< Mesopotamia, The key to the Future, Craven Hovse,
1917 >>
 
 
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June 18, 1938: The publication of the Assyrian political journal, ATHRA, begins in Beirut, under the direction of Yosuf Malik. Malik's articles continued to enrage the British officials and the Iraqi government, until he was forced to leave Lebanon and shut down his printing press in Beirut.
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ANWAR OSHANA
Only two weeks before 28 June WBA Heavyweight Championship
fight between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson in Las Vegas, Nevada it
is most appropriate to mention a new boxing star from Illinois (Chicago)-
The Assyrian IBO Super Middleweight boxer, Anwar Oshana.  Anwar has
thus far succeeded in winning two fights and become the most promising
fighter in his division. On 8 February Anwar defeated Patrick Swann in
10 rounds, and on 9 April he was able to win a 12-round fight over Bruce
Rumbloz. Anwar's record at this time is 15-0 and he holds a ranking of
10 in his IBO (International Boxing Organization) division.  A Super
Middleweight body weight limit is 168 pounds.  Holding the current 
IBO Super Middleweight Championship is Mads Larsen of Denmark ranked as
5th in the World's Boxing Organization, after knocking out Shannon Landberg
in the fourth round on May 2.  According to an unconfirmed report
Anwar has signed on Evander Holyfield's trainer as his own and will fight
with England's Super Middleweight champion in July.  ZENDA will continue
to report on Anwar Oshana's future victories and notify its readers of
his future championship fights.
 
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ZNAA (Assyrian Academic Society-Chicago)
ZNAD (Assyrian Democratic Organization)
ZNAM (Archeology Magazine)
ZNAP (Associated Press International)
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