In one of the first militant attacks by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah" id="mwAVc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hezbollah">Hezbollah</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Dodge" id="mwAVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="David S. Dodge">David S. Dodge</a>, president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_University_of_Beirut" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American University of Beirut">American University of Beirut</a>, is kidnapped.<sup about="#mwt61" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"nyt"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-nyt-10"}}' id="cite_ref-nyt_10-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_19#cite_note-nyt-10" id="mwAVo" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVs">[10]</span></a></sup>