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- WORLD, Page 59World NotesLEBANONTurning Out The Lights
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- As Lebanon descended into chaos, the Bush Administration
- debated whether to shut down its embattled embassy. A pullout
- would signal a devastating ineffectiveness, but last week the
- White House finally did call it quits, ordering the evacuation
- of Ambassador John McCarthy and 29 other officials. The walled
- embassy compound had been besieged by 1,500 Christian supporters
- of Major General Michel Aoun, who were angered at the U.S.
- failure to side with them against Syrian occupiers. The move
- left Washington without representation in Beirut for the first
- time in Lebanon's 14-year civil war.
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