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Article: IN LEBANON, PUSH FOR POLITICAL CHANGE COMPETES WITH MOURNING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2000
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BEIRUT - Lebanon's television stations broadcast a nonstop diet of
classical music mixed with recitations from the Koran yesterday as
the country officially mourned the death of Syrian President Hafez
Assad.
With Prime Minister Salim Hoss describing Assad's demise as a
"momentous calamity" for Lebanon, the country's leaders streamed
across the border to offer condolences to the late Syrian leader's
son and likely successor, Bashar, in Damascus.
But while news of Assad's death sent hundreds in mainly Muslim
west Beirut into the streets Saturday night, dutifully waving Syrian
flags, there was little visible reaction over the weekend from the
Christian eastern half of the capital.
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