With Israel in the role of observer and the U.S. and Syria as active participants, nine leaders of Lebanon’s warring factions meet in Geneva for the first round of national reconciliation talks.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt meets with a delegation of American Jewish leaders and assures them of Egypt’s continued commitment to the peace treaty with Israel, although he provides no clue as to when Egypt would return its Ambassador to Israel, recalled in September, 1982.
Yitzhak Shamir, in his first Knesset speech as Israel’s Premier, calls for an end to “the mad arms race” in the Middle East and expresses his disappointment with the “cold peace” between Israel and Egypt.
Twin suicide attacks with truckloads of high explosives demolish the U.S. and French military headquarters in Beirut, killing 241 American servicemen and 58 French soldiers.
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