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November 1, 1979 Combats between the Amal movement and soldiers from the Arab Strike Force caused 5 dead and 17 wounded.
November 1, 1979 The Marada imposed a fuel blockade against the eastern regions in order to obtain the release of the hostages.
November 12, 1979 The work document that Lebanon was going to present in Tunis, contained 6 main points: exercising pressure on the United States to end Israeli aggressions, freezing the actions of the Fedayin, laying the Lebanese authority in the South, banning any illegal armed presence, re-activating the Beiteddine Committee, and grouping guerillas in some specified zones.
November 16, 1979 The dollar registered its highest level in Beirut, reaching 347 Lebanese Pounds, something that never happened before.
November 22, 1979 For the first time since 1974, the Lebanese celebrated Independence Day with showiness.
November 23, 1979 The Tunis summit was disappointing. Lebanon received only a solemn proclamation of support doubled by a financial assistance up to 2 billion dollars, but the Southern Lebanon problem remained unsolved, the summit having just called the State and the resistance to get along.
December 1, 1979 A total shortage of fuel paralyzed the capital, as well as the mountain and the South; the reasons for this shortage remained unknown.
December 7, 1979 For the first time in Lebanon, a particularly delicate surgical intervention was successfully undertaken. Professor Wafic Sinno performed an implantation of an artificial crystalline at the Hotel-Dieu hospital.
December 19, 1979 An ongoing manifestation in Tripoli went out of control. The demonstrators protesting against the increase of the cost of living, vandalized Tripoli's seraglio and molested the Mohafez of Northern Lebanon. The administrations and public services clerks in Tripoli decided to stop working for 3 days.
December 26, 1979 Efforts intensified to free the Zghortiote hostages. Sleiman Frangieh set the deadline to December 31.