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Article: Ex-Lebanese chief Camille Chamoun, 87
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 9, 1987
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BEIRUT Former President Camille Chamoun, 87, who helped lead
Lebanon's fight for independence and later requested the first U.S.
military intervention in the Middle East, died Friday.
A St. George Hospital statement said Mr. Chamoun, who survived
four assassination attempts, died of heart failure.
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 later was elected to Lebanon's Chamber of Deputies and held
several ministerial posts under French mandate. After independence
in 1943, he was ambassador to London until ...