UPI CUTS 15 3 80 ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF CAMILLE CHAMOUN

(12 Mar 1980) A remote-controlled bomb exploded next to the car of Camille Chamoun, a former Lebanese President and the present leader of the National Liberal Party. Mr Chamoun escaped with scratches but his driver was killed and three bodyguards seriously wounded. The explosion was in a street in east Beirut. Afterwards, the 80 year old christian statesman said that he did not know who was responsible -- probably a group of criminals, not Lebanese but foreign. He did not want to say at this stage who the foreigners might be

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