May .E2.80.93 June 2 Timeline of the presidency of Gerald Ford



president ford monitors evacuation of american citizens beirut, lebanon, june 20, 1976



june 16 – francis e. meloy, jr., incoming u.s. ambassador lebanon, along robert waring, u.s. economic counselor, , driver, zuhair mohammed moghrabi, kidnapped popular front liberation of palestine members cross green line, division between beirut s christian , muslim sectors. bullet-riddled bodies of meloy , waring found later day on beach in ramlet al-baida.
june 17 – president meets cia director george h.w. bush, chief of staff dick cheney , special emissary lebanon l. dean brown, , others, during meeting of national security council discuss evacuation of americans beirut, capital of lebanon. following day, initial group of approximately 200 american , lebanese nationals evacuated.
june 20 – president orders evacuation of american citizens lebanon. day, 110 americans , 157 nationals of other countries transported lebanon piraeus, greece aboard uss spiegel grove. approximately 300 additional persons, including around 150 americans, evacuated on july 27, aboard uss coronado, , taken piraeus greece.




^ robert fisk (2001). pity nation: lebanon @ war. oxford university press. p. 83. 
^ cbs evening news sunday, jun 20, 1976 . retrieved 26 october 2012. 
^ evacuees aboard ship in party mood . miami news. 21 june 1976. retrieved 30 october 2012. 
^ marines backed beirut rescue . chicago tribune. july 30, 1976. p. 10. retrieved 30 october 2012. 






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