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<text id=92TT0605>
<title>
Mar. 23, 1992: World Notes:Lebanon
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Mar. 23, 1992 Clinton vs. Tsongas
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 43
World Notes
LEBANON
The Terrible Tally of Death
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<p> During 15 years of brutal civil war among religious and
political clans, fought mainly by Christian and Muslim
militiamen, Beirut became a synonym for savagery. Last week for
the first time authorities put out an official estimate of the
rivers of blood spilled through Lebanon and its 3.4 million
population. The casualty toll, largely civilian: 144,240 people
slain, 197,506 wounded and 17,415 missing. Most of the missing
persons were abducted by rival militias, and are now presumed
dead.
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<p> The report also counted 3,641 car bombs, which killed
4,386 people. The toll includes 241 U.S. Marines and 58 French
paratroopers who died in nearly simultaneous truck bombings in
1983. The Lebanese conflict, which ended in 1990 when Syrian
forces crushed Christian General Michel Aoun and an Arab
League-mediated peace accord took hold, claimed more than twice
the number of lives lost by both sides in the five major
Arab-Israeli wars since 1948.
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</body></article>
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