US consulate in Beirut opens its door again

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Laurent Belsie

May 12, 1983

Beirut

The United States reopened its consulate in Beirut, 23 days after the US Embassy was blown up. Consul Diane Dillard reopened the consulate in an office building 200 yards up the seafront from the shattered embassy.