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<text id=89TT1397>
<title>
May 29, 1989: World Notes:Lebanon
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 29, 1989 China In Turmoil
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 63
World Notes
LEBANON
A Peacemaker Is Slain
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<p> The motorcade was snaking its way through lunch-hour
traffic in a residential quarter of West Beirut when a parked
car loaded with 330 lbs. of TNT erupted in a shattering
explosion. Rescuers dashed through the flames to the black
Cadillac at the center of the motorcade, but it was too late.
"Our beloved Mufti is murdered!" screamed a policeman. The
explosion also killed 21 others and injured 75 bystanders.
</p>
<p> Thus ended the life of Sheik Hassan Khaled, the revered
Grand Mufti of Lebanon's 900,000 Sunni Muslims. Sheik Khaled had
devoted most of his 68 years to seeking an accommodation between
his country's perennially fractious Muslim and Christian
populations.
</p>
<p> Responsibility for the bombing remained uncertain. The
Syrians, who control West Beirut, blamed Lebanon's Christians;
the Christians accused the Syrians. But fittingly, the death of
the peace-loving cleric inspired a rare display of unity:
Christians and Muslims joined in a one-day nationwide strike to
mourn his loss.
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