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