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Summary:A new wave of violence swept through the shattered city of Beirut on November 23 1975, sweeping aside the last remnants of a ceasefire which had kept Christian and Moslem factions apart. A meeting of Lebanon's leading politicians had to be called off - because gunmen blazed away at each other only a few hundred yards from where the meeting was due to be held.
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Location:LEBANON BEIRUT
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