The World - News from Jan. 25, 1988

Shia Muslim militiamen lifted their siege of the last refugee camp they had been blockading in Lebanon, bringing to an end their nearly three-year war with Palestinian guerrillas. Fighters of Justice Minister Nabih Berri’s Amal militia withdrew from positions ringing the Rashidiyeh refugee camp in Lebanon’s port of Tyre. A Shia Muslim siege of Beirut’s Chatilla and Borj el Brajne camps was lifted last Wednesday. Amal had imposed the blockade to block a return to power by Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization, whose forces were driven out of Beirut by the Israeli invasion of 1982. Amal said it was lifting the siege to show support for Palestinian protests in Israel’s occupied areas.