After the fightings in Beirut, the Amal movement and the Hezbollah continue their bloody fightings in the Iqlim-el-Touffah.
The extraordinary conference of Arab ministers of Foreign Affairs was held in Tunis without the Lebanese delegation although the conference covered primarily the Lebanese crisis.
On the fifth day of a bloody duel, Amal and Hezbollah sink in the Iqlim-el-Touffah.
The great Lebanese poet and drama author, Georges Schehade, dies at the age of 81 in his Parisian house. Georges Schehade wrote in French.
The chief of the National Liberal Party, Dany Chamoun, met with Walid Joumblatt, chief of the Progressive Socialist Party, in Deir el Kamar. Moreover, Beiteddine was busy organizing the return of the refugees.
Following negotiations conducted in Damascus, the pro-Syrian Amal movement and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah sign an agreement putting an end to their armed conflict that cost the life of 400 persons in 10 months.
Presidents Hoss, Husseini, and General Aoun did not come up with an agreement in Tunis.
After 2 months of interruption, the Red Cross International Committee decides to resume its activities in Lebanon.
Anouar Fatayri, high official of the Progressive Socialist Party and his bodyguard Mohammed Saïd Abou Mehdi are assassinated in an ambush at the entry of the Jahlieh village in the Chouf.
Confrontations are taking place between the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Forces in Jdeideh.
New confrontations between the army and the L.F. were taking place in Monteverde and next to the Justice Palace in Beirut, which created a general mobilization on both sides.
An agreement on military disengagement is concluded between the Army and the L.F., within in a four-party committee.
A general Christian assembly is held in Bkerkeh, headquarters of the Maronite patriarch, in order to treat the L.F.-Army litigation.
A meeting between General Aoun, Chief Commander of the Army, and Samir Geagea Chief of the L.F., takes place in Baabda. The goal of this meeting is to eliminate the differences between them.
The fifth basin of Beirut harbor, controlled by the L.F. is closed and the tax checkpoints of Berbara are dismantled.
A permanent political-military committee Army-L.F is formed to insure the normalization in the Eastern regions.
Yarzeh reactivated 'The Maritime Operations Room:' instructed to watch the navigation movement in the Lebanese waters and to prevent boats from entering the illegal harbours of the country. Sami Khatib (chief commander of the army in the Western sector) closed the access to the port in retort to what was considered a blockade.
Fire exchanges in Souk-el-Gharb had to end up in an explosion. Intensive bombardments of the residential areas, the airport, and the port made 32 deaths and 145 injured.
An attack against a bakery in Jal-el-Dib kills 15 and wounds 140.
Jounieh and the Museum crossroads are bombarded.
All crossing roads are closed and a blockade is imposed against the East regions.
Hit by a shell, a butane reservoir explodes in Dora resulting in 66 injured and considerable damages.
During a moving ceremony in the Lebanese embassy in Paris, 862 French apply for the Lebanese nationality.
Jean-Franois Deniau, emissary of the Quai d'Orsay, arrives in Beirut. He has to meet with General Aoun and President Hoss.
The French Secretary of State to the Human Action, Bernard Kouchner, arrives in Beirut in order to prepare and explain the arrival of the hospital ship 'La Rance' and the oil tanker 'Penhors'.
The Spanish Ambassador in Lebanon, Don Pedro Manuel de Aristegui, dies in his Hadeth residence hit by a 240 mm shell. His father in law, the great Lebanese writer Toufic Aouad, as well as his sister in law are among the victims.
The French oil tanker 'Penhors' discharges 4700 tons of fuel at the power plant of Zouk. This unloading allows the redistribution of power at the rate of 2 hours a day.
The Arab ministers meeting in Tunis wish to see a cease-fire and a deployment of Arab observers.
Lakhdar Ibrahimi, General Secretary of the Arab League, arrives in Beirut looking to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
For the first time since about a month, a new ship accosts in the Jounieh port to embark and disembark passengers. It is a hovercraft.
The Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Hassan Khaled was killed during an attack that killed 10 and injured 76 in Ayche Bakkar, in West Beirut.
The EEC gives its full support to the committee composed by the three Chiefs of State (Algerian, Saudi Arabian, and Moroccan) constituted during the Casablanca Summit in order to find a solution to the Lebanese crisis.
Electricity, fuel, and flour are the daily preoccupation of Lebanese. Once again, the power plant of Zouk announces that it cannot supply power more than 2 hours a day.
A new fuel rationing system, based on coupons, is enforced in the Eastern regions.
The pounding of Achrafieh continues and causes a large number of victims.
In a joint declaration from Paris, Presidents Mitterand and Gorbatchev call for an immediate cease-fire.
The Delegate Minister in charge of Francophony, Alain Decaux, arrives in Beirut and meets with General Aoun, Maronite Patriarch Sfeir, Walid Joumblatt as well as many other diplomats.
2000 angry demonstrators have besieged the American Embassy. Twenty-four hours later, 30 American diplomats, including the Ambassador John Mc Carthy, leave Lebanon.
The UN delivers a 200,000 dollars check to the human organization 'Save the Children' in favor of war victims in Lebanon.
The Sunnite Deputy of the West Bekaa and former Minister, Nazem Kadri (74 years old), is killed in Verdun.