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'Poster disarmament': Lebanon, seeking peace, takes down posters that fueled tensions
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader's poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut's al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared.
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