WORLD IN BRIEF : LEBANON : Aoun’s Family Flies to Exile in France
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun’s wife and three daughters flew to exile in France as a dispute between the French government and Lebanon intensified over the fate of the defeated Christian rebel. Aoun has been holed up in the French Embassy since a week ago, when his months-long mutiny was crushed by Syrian-led forces in a blitz that left at least 350 people dead. The Beirut government has refused to allow him to leave.
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