The World - News from July 7, 1988

Fighting flared between Palestinian guerrillas in Beirut’s Borj el Brajne refugee camp after the collapse of Algerian-sponsored negotiations to end the nine-week-old bloodletting. Police said loyalists of Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat traded mortar and rocket fire with Syrian-backed rivals of Abu Moussa’s breakaway Fatah Uprising faction after three Algerian envoys left the camp. Two people were killed and 11 were wounded in the exchanges, police said, bringing the overall toll to 160 killed since fighting broke out May 1 for control of Borj el Brajne and the nearby Chatilla camp. Chatilla fell to Fatah Uprising guerrillas June 27, leaving Borj el Brajne the PLO’s last stronghold in the Lebanese capital.