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** The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their " Operation Peace for the Galilee ," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
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** and Lebanon
** Arabia: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia.
** Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Robert Polhill, who had been held hostage since January 1987.
** Northern Ireland writer Brian Keenan is released from Lebanon after being held hostage for nearly 5 years.
** U. S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped ( he is later killed by his captors ).
** Israel releases 51 Arab prisoners and the bodies of 9 guerillas, raising hopes that the last Western hostages in Lebanon will soon be released.
** Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years ' captivity as a hostage in Beirut ( the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon ).
** Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese civil war.
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