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- <text id=89TT2431>
- <title>
- Sep. 18, 1989: World Notes:Lebanon
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 59
- World Notes
- LEBANON
- Turning Out The Lights
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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