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Article: Ex-Lebanese leader Camille Chamoun, 87

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BEIRUT Former President Camille Chamoun, who helped lead Lebanon's fight for independence and later requested the first U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, died Friday. He was 87.

A hospital statement said Mr. Chamoun, who survived four assassination attempts, died of heart failure in Saint George Hospital. He had been admitted Thursday with a heart ailment.

Camille Nimr "Tiger" Chamoun came from an ancient and prominent family among the Maronites, a Middle Eastern Christian community. He was educated at a French school in Beirut and graduated in 1923 with a law degree.

He was later elected to Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies and held several ministerial posts under French ...

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