The World - News from Dec. 8, 1986

Mortar and tank shells and rocket-propelled grenades exploded around Beirut’s embattled refugee camps after Shia Muslim militiamen rejected still another truce plan. A Palestinian official in Damascus, Syria, had announced that various Palestinian guerrilla groups, including Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement--not a party to a previous unsuccessful truce--had agreed to a cease-fire in their battle with the Lebanese Shias. But Nabih Berri, leader of the Shia Amal militia, rejected the truce in a statement issued in the Syrian capital.