The American embassy escaped the blast in Beirut’s port unscathed. Many Western countri...

Responda: The American embassy escaped the blast in Beirut’s port unscathed. Many Western countries either have missions in the city centre or diplomats who live in the area. The wife of the Dutch ambassador...

1Q681020 | Inglês, Primeiro Dia, FGV, FGV, 2020

The American embassy escaped the blast in Beirut’s port unscathed. Many Western countries either have missions in the city centre or diplomats who live in the area. The wife of the Dutch ambassador was killed, as was a German diplomat. But America’s embassy sits in the mountain village of Awkar, five miles from the port. Security measures are onerous, a hangover from the bombing of the American embassy in Beirut in 1983, which killed 63 people. It took a week before the ambassador, Dorothy Shea, a career diplomat, toured the port. Even on social media it has been far quieter than other foreign powers.
(www.economist.com, 13.08.2020. Adapted.)
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✂️ a) underscore the extent of the damage brought about by a bombing in Beirut last August.
✂️ b) display differences in approach between American diplomacy and other countries’ in the moments shortly following the explosion.
✂️ c) depict covert and behind-the-scenes divergences between the American and the Lebanese governments.
✂️ d) accuse the American government of omission for fear of a new threat against American citizens.
✂️ e) point out the low visibility of America’s diplomacy in the Beirut’s event due to both, the Embassy’s location and attitude.