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11/11/2004:

"Westerners Are Evacuated From Ivory Coast"

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Nov. 10 -- Angry crowds chanted "All whites out!" as Western nations on Wednesday launched one of the largest evacuations of Africa's post-independence era. French soldiers in boats plucked trapped countrymen from the banks of lagoons.

Convoys shuttled foreigners to the airport, passing through "very virulent" crowds of loyalist youths on a route littered with burned vehicles and abandoned roadblocks of smoldering tires, said Philippe Moreux, a U.N. spokesman.

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