4 news for the 21st of February, September
with the booksSeptember 21, 1975sunday
Bread, flour, gas, and meat became scarce in Beirut while snipers spread terror.
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De Clerck and Malsagne date the start of bread rationing to September 1975.
September 21, 1981monday
A car bomb in Hamra and an attack in Tripoli proved that horror was still haunting Lebanon. It seemed that it would never end.
September 21, 1982tuesday
Amine Gemayel was elected President of the Lebanese Republic, while the Lebanese army took in charge the Palestinian camps.
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Amine Gemayel was elected in the same Fayadiyeh barracks as his brother, with 77 votes of the 80 deputies present (Hanf). On the evening of 20 September Israeli ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Ariel Sharon had met him secretly at Dbayeh (Ménargues).
September 21, 1989thursday
The Sunnite Deputy of the West Bekaa and former Minister, Nazem Kadri (74 years old), is killed in Verdun.
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Hanf says Kadri had lobbied deputies to press for Syria's withdrawal from the Bekaa before Taif. He groups the killing with those of Bashir Gemayel, Kamal Jumblatt, Hassan Khaled and Mohammed Shukair, all of which, in his view, plainly benefited Syria.