| October 19, 1987 | | Teachers call for an open and unlimited strike.
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| October 23, 1987 | | During his trip in the Middle-East, Richard Murphy, American Sub-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, transmits to President Gemayel ideas suggested by Damascus to stabilize the situation.
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| October 26, 1987 | | The dollar comes close to 500 LBP in Beirut. This staggering drop of the Lebanese Pound finds its explanation in the important drain of capitals out of Lebanon and the decrease of currency transfers into the country.
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| October 29, 1987 | | Two French policemen are killed and a third one injured in a murder attempt in Dora. This incident represents a new challenge for France and a hard blow for Lebanon.
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| November 5, 1987 | | The CGTL announces an open general strike, followed a few days later by a mass demonstration in Beirut and in other Lebanese regions.
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| November 11, 1987 | | The explosion of a suitcase-bomb in Beirut Airport provokes panic amongst the travellers, kills 3 persons and wounds 65.
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| November 14, 1987 | | The attempt against the American Hospital is a first in the annals of terrorism. Tjis is the first time hospitals are attacked. It killed 6 ersons and wounded 37.
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| November 16, 1987 | | Saida city went through a day of combats and bombing, killing according to a first toll, 6 people and injuring fourty. The confrontation was between Palestinian combatants and the Nasserian Popular Organization's militiamen.
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| November 23, 1987 | | President Gemayel, during a trip in Europe, makes a stop in Bonn to ask the German Government for economic help.
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| November 27, 1987 | | November seems to end with a sign of hope for the hostages in Lebanon. Jean-Louis Normandin, kidnapped in March 86, and Roger Auque, kidnapped in January 87, are set free.
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| December 2, 1987 | | While credits are unblocked to buy fuel and service stations are reopened, Victor Cassir, Minister of Industry and Oil, authorizes private companies to import fuel subject to a previous authorization by the Ministry of Oil.
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| December 8, 1987 | | The storm is raging in the country. Floods provoke important damages and kill 5 persons. On the other hand, electric power becomes rare.
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| December 28, 1987 | | Charles Malek dies at the age of 82 ans following a long period of illness. The news of the death of the former Council's Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs saddens the political, as well as the academic and intellectual sets. The American President Ronald Reagan addresses an emotional tribute to the memory of the academic, the philosopher and the politician.
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| January 3, 1988 | | Murderous Israeli raids on Palestinian and Progressive Socialist Party positions in the region of Saida make kill 21 persons and wound 11.
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| January 4, 1988 | | A Progressive Socialist Party member hijacks a Lebanese Army helicopter. This affair triggers a maritime blockade imposed by the Army on the Chouf region.
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| January 10, 1988 | | In order to avoid the escalation, Joumblatt surrenders the 'Gazelle' to the Hammana barrack but the major insists on going back to Adma. Two days later, this crisis is forgotten and the maritime blockade is lifted up.
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| January 17, 1988 | | A 'Puma' crashes in the sea next to the Bouar coast with its captain Georges Sadaka on board and his co-pilot Jean Azzi. The search for the two bodies was unsuccessful.
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| January 20, 1988 | | The camps war, that lasted three years, seems to come close to an end with the deployment of the Syrian army and the Lebanese Army sixth brigade, replacing Amal around Chatila and Bourj-Brajneh.
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| January 21, 1988 | | The institute 'Etudes et Consultations Economiques' publishes the results of its annual analysis of the price increase in Beirut. They show an increase of 721% during the year 1987.
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| January 25, 1988 | | While hail falls on most of the country causing important damages, police patrols go round bakeries that are reducing the 2 kilos 'rabta' of bread, sold regularly at 65 LBP., to 1700grs.
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| January 27, 1988 | | Ralph Schary is kidnapped in West Beirut. Married to Rana Mounla, a Muslim from Tripoli, he is the third West German national who is kidnapped.
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| January 29, 1988 | | The fall of the dollar (400 LBP.) on the market (it had reached 430 LBP.) allows the Minister of Industry and Oil to reduce the price of oil from 1400 LBP. to 1200 LBP. and the ton of fuel from 69,200 LBP. to 52,000 LBP.
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| February 2, 1988 | | Jacques Merrin, a Frenchman working for the DGSE, is killed by unknown persons in the neighborhood of the Palace of Justice.
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| February 3, 1988 | | Winter is tough. A 20 cm snow layer covers Tripoli where it had not snowed since 1947.
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| February 4, 1988 | | The emissary of President Amine Gemayel, Elie Salem, meets with the Secretary of State George Schultz in Washington in the presence of the Sub-Secretary for the Middle East Affairs, Richard Murphy.
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| February 5, 1988 | | Two Scandinavian employees of the UNRWA are kidnapped.
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| February 12, 1988 | | An explosive charge of 880 grs of TNT is found and diffused in the airplane that has to transport President Gemayel to Sanaa.
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| February 28, 1988 | | The Lebanese thinker and man of letters Mikhael Neaimeh dies at the age of 98 following a bronchitis.
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| March 3, 1988 | | Ralph Schray, The West German national kidnapped on January 27, is released in Beirut and driven to Damascus.
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| March 7, 1988 | | The R.F. Semaan Doueihy, Deputy of Zghorta, is killed by violent heart attack at the age of 67.
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| March 18, 1988 | | The Ivory Coast decides to close its embassy in Beirut fearing that a negative action against its diplomats could cause repercussions on the Lebanese that live in the Ivory Coast.
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| March 31, 1988 | | The first animated cartoons festival in Lebanon is inaugurated at the S.E.P in presence of several personalities as well as cartoonists who came from France.
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| April 6, 1988 | | Following combats between Amal and Hezbollah, Nabatiyeh falls in the hands of Amal militiamen.
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| April 24, 1988 | | The northern Lebanon capital, Tripoli, is mourning because of a strong explosive charge that killed 66 and injured 26.
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| April 27, 1988 | | 27,000 public school teachers go on an open strike in order to obtain better medical and social benefits.
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| April 30, 1988 | | The body of Bishop Albert Khoreiche was discovered in the forest of Chnaiir, provoking consternation in every milieu. He had disappeared eight days earlier in mysterious conditions.
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| May 4, 1988 | | The affair of the three last French hostages has a happy ending. Marcel Fontaine, Marcel Carton and Jean-Paul Kauffman, detained for three years by the Islamic Jihad, are finally released. Michel Seurat, dead one year after he was made captive, wasn't as lucky.
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| May 5, 1988 | | Lebanon requests an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council following Israeli military operations on its territory.
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| May 11, 1988 | | Iran and Syria sponsored a seven-point agreement destined to consolidate the end of combats in the southern suburbs that made, in 6 days, 157 death and 666 injured. The agreement was revised a few days later.
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| May 18, 1988 | | A young unemployed man, Antoine Khalife, wins 150 millions LBP. at the Loto.
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