On 9 August 1982, "Biddle" and her colleagues headed back to the contingency force off Lebanon. Between 21 and 28 August, she served as escort for Palestinian Liberation Organization refugees leaving Beirut for Tunisia on board the Cypriot merchantman SS . Port visits and exercises occupied her time until mid-September when the situation in Lebanon began to break down again. "Biddle" returned to PIRAZ station on 18 September and remained there until 23 November. After a visit to Athens, she moved west to rendezvous with "Nimitz" for another freedom of navigation operation in the Gulf of Sidra. "Biddle" then set out for home early in December and reached Norfolk on the 22nd.