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• Beirut Massacre • Tylenol Scare • Marines Land • Barney Clark • Epcot Opens • Brezhnev Dies • Prin cess Dies ® Walesa Freed Wide World Photos Wide World Photos The 1982-83 year was full of important, often depressing, world news events. Throughout the year, terror ripped through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon as fighting raged on between Palestinean and Israeli forces. On September 18th, men, women, and children were massacred by Israeli-backed Christian Phalangist troops in the Palestinean refugee camp of Sabra. This event brought world criticism of occupation of Beirut, and it to the U.S. ' s decision to send in to try to keep peace. U.S. Marines arrived in Lebanon for what was supposed to be a brief stay, but they remain there today in even greater numbers. During the year, Americans faced a serious threat at home. Between September 29th and October 1st, seven people died in the Chicago area after they took Extra Strength Tylenol capsules laced with The deaths sparked an intense search for tainted drugs, and they set off a series of copycat tamperings around the country. News of the tamperings kept Americans in fear for months. Wide World Photos 60 World News
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