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April 4, 1981saturday
An intensive bombardment in Zahleh killed 20 and injured 100.

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Ménargues dates a day of intensive shelling of Zahleh, with about twenty dead, to 6 April.

April 4, 1983monday
Shiite leaders called for a sit-in South Lebanon.

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April 4, 1984wednesday
The retired General Antoine Lahd took his functions as head of the South Lebanon Army (SLA) created and financed by Israel. This new militia replaced Saad Haddad's Army of Free Lebanon. Artillery duels continued in Beirut and in the mountain, making the month of April one of the worst months in the Lebanese crisis. In Tripoli, the confrontations between the Islamic Unification Movement and the Arab Democratic Party continued violently for several months.

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De Clerck and Malsagne date the name 'South Lebanon Army' to April 1985; in 1984 Lahad took over Haddad's existing militia. Hanf says he was a Maronite general from the Chouf, close to Chamoun; de Clerck and Malsagne say he came from Kfar Qatra and had headed army intelligence. Hanf confirms that fighting in Tripoli flared again in 1984.

April 4, 1986friday
The 45 French observers in charge of observing the dividing lines in Beirut and in the Mountain, left Lebanon. Their departure was probably due to political changes in France.

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Hanf cites the observers' heavy casualties and a ceasefire nobody respected, which left them nothing to do.

April 4, 1989tuesday
During a moving ceremony in the Lebanese embassy in Paris, 862 French apply for the Lebanese nationality.

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De Clerck and Malsagne do not mention the ceremony, but they record a rally outside the Lebanese embassy in Paris that day: more than 2,000 people, brought together by Frédérique Deniau under the slogan 'We are all Lebanese', among them Jean d'Ormesson, Françoise Giroud, Abbé Pierre, André Glucksmann and Claude Mauriac.