Volume 43, Number 9 · May 23, 1996

The Shame of Lebanon

By Murray Kempton

The antechambers of the President of Syria fill up with an army of suppliant suitors; and every personage, however grand elsewhere, must shrink himself down and jostle all the rest for access to this opaque oracle.



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